Shemos, Vaera
1) Introduction: Yaakov's family multiplies in Egypt
2) Decrees
3) Early life of Moshe
4) God's reaction
a) God sees Jews' suffering
b) Revelation to Moshe
5) Journey back to Egypt
6) Moshe's first mission and its result
a) First meeting with Pharoah
b) Restatement of promise to take Jews out of Egypt
7) Second mission
8) Introductory interlude
a) Second command
b) Ancestry of Moshe and Aharon
c) Repetition of command
9) Aharon as Moshe's spokesman
10) First wonders performed before Pharoah
a) Sign of rod
b) Command of blood
c) Execution of blood
11) First set of plagues
a) Frogs
b) Lice
c) Arov
12) Cattle plague
13) Second set of plagues
a) Boils
b) Warning of hail
14) Execution of hail
The first parsha introduces the book by reiterating the end of the previous book. The second begins the storyline of the book by describing the antagonism of the Egyptians, while the third sets the stage for its resolution by introducing Moses.
The fourth connects the 2nd and 3rd parshiyos by describing the beginning of the resolution. In the 5th, Moshe returns to Egypt, and in the 6th, his first message to Pharaoh ends in failure.
The 7th introduces his second mission, which will ultimately succeed. The 8th is a tangent describing the lineage of Moshe and Aharon in more detail. The 9th is the immediate prologue to the climax, as Aharon is appointed as Moshe's spokesman.
The 10th describes the introductory wonders of the rod-to-serpent and water-to-blood, which mirror the wonders of the rod-to-snake and water-to-blood which HaShem showed to Moshe at the bush. Although blood is usually considered a plague of punishment rather than a mere sign, perhaps its location here indicates that at the very least it served both purposes.
The 11th connects the plagues of frogs, lice, and wild beasts (Arov) - the three plagues utilizing annoying animals. This implies that the wild beasts were not so fatal (as is also implied by their placement before apparently weaker plagues such as pestilence and boils). Locusts represented a much more serious danger, so came only later.
The 12th parsha describes only the cattle pestilence.
The 13th describes boils and the warning of hail, while the plague of hail itself did not come until the 14th parsha.
2) Decrees
3) Early life of Moshe
4) God's reaction
a) God sees Jews' suffering
b) Revelation to Moshe
5) Journey back to Egypt
6) Moshe's first mission and its result
a) First meeting with Pharoah
b) Restatement of promise to take Jews out of Egypt
7) Second mission
8) Introductory interlude
a) Second command
b) Ancestry of Moshe and Aharon
c) Repetition of command
9) Aharon as Moshe's spokesman
10) First wonders performed before Pharoah
a) Sign of rod
b) Command of blood
c) Execution of blood
11) First set of plagues
a) Frogs
b) Lice
c) Arov
12) Cattle plague
13) Second set of plagues
a) Boils
b) Warning of hail
14) Execution of hail
The first parsha introduces the book by reiterating the end of the previous book. The second begins the storyline of the book by describing the antagonism of the Egyptians, while the third sets the stage for its resolution by introducing Moses.
The fourth connects the 2nd and 3rd parshiyos by describing the beginning of the resolution. In the 5th, Moshe returns to Egypt, and in the 6th, his first message to Pharaoh ends in failure.
The 7th introduces his second mission, which will ultimately succeed. The 8th is a tangent describing the lineage of Moshe and Aharon in more detail. The 9th is the immediate prologue to the climax, as Aharon is appointed as Moshe's spokesman.
The 10th describes the introductory wonders of the rod-to-serpent and water-to-blood, which mirror the wonders of the rod-to-snake and water-to-blood which HaShem showed to Moshe at the bush. Although blood is usually considered a plague of punishment rather than a mere sign, perhaps its location here indicates that at the very least it served both purposes.
The 11th connects the plagues of frogs, lice, and wild beasts (Arov) - the three plagues utilizing annoying animals. This implies that the wild beasts were not so fatal (as is also implied by their placement before apparently weaker plagues such as pestilence and boils). Locusts represented a much more serious danger, so came only later.
The 12th parsha describes only the cattle pestilence.
The 13th describes boils and the warning of hail, while the plague of hail itself did not come until the 14th parsha.
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