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This Week’s Dvar Torah

Barshat Bo: Moderation is the religious way

Parshat Bo is the Parsha of the Exodus. It details carefully the leadup and actual moment when the nation leaves Egypt. The straw that breaks Pharaoh’s back is the final plague of the first born (Makat Bechorot). As the Jewish nation is leaving Egypt Moses has a strange reminder for the nation:

“Today you are leaving – in the month of spring” (Shemot 13:4).

Moshe found it important to emphasize to the people that they left Egypt “be-chodesh ha-aviv” – “during the month of spring,” referring to the month of Nissan. Why was this detail so important? What difference did it make which month the nation left Egypt?
The Mechilta comments that it was to show the people G-ds great compassion. Hashem chose to release the nation when the climate is most agreeable. Not during the scotching hot summer months and not during the bitter cold winter days. During Nissan, the spring season, the weather is moderate. Just right, not too cold and not too hot. Rashi quotes this opinion in his commentary of Psalms.

He took Israel out of Egypt in the month that is best suited for travelers, neither hot nor cold (Rashi Psalm 68:7)

There is a beautiful Chasidic explanation to the Mechilta. Rav Yechezkel of Shinova, in Divrei Yechezkel, offers a symbolic understanding of the Midrash’s comment. The Exodus occurred in the springtime, he explains, to teach about the need for moderation in religious life. Heat is often used as a metaphor for intense zeal and passion, whereas cold is commonly associated with apathy and disinterest. Our nation left the service of Pharaoh and entered the service of the Almighty specifically during the springtime, which is neither exceedingly hot nor exceedingly cold, because we must avoid both extremes in our service of God. The Jewish way is the way of moderation and the rejection of extremism. Not too hot and not to cold but just right, in the middle path.

Wishing you all
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Yosef Benarroch
Adas Yeshurun Herzlia

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This Week’s Yahrzeits

Shevat 5	January 27, 2023	Samuel David Gunn
Shevat 7	January 29, 2023	Margery Schwartz
Shevat 8	January 30, 2023	Charles Malkin
Shevat 9	January 31, 2023	Moses Meyer Cohen
Shevat 9	January 31, 2023	Naomi Chana Coodin
Shevat 9	January 31, 2023	Michael Greenberg
Shevat 11	February 2, 2023	Jack Ballon
Shevat 11	February 2, 2023	Henry Jarniewski

In loving memory we remember them. May their memory be blessed !

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