In this week’s Torah portion, Vaera, Moshe complains to God that he is a bad speaker, literally “uncircumcised of lips,” and thus cannot go to Pharaoh. God’s solution is to send Aaron with him to be the speaker. But just before this, we are told Moshe tried to talk to the Jewish people, and “the…

Yetziat Mitzrayim, the Exodus from Egypt, which we are currently reading about in the Torah, is not only a national historical event, but, as Rabbi Nachaman of Breslov put it, something that we as individuals, emotionally and spiritually, must engage in every day. For hundreds of years, the Israelites were born into a slavery, not…

In this week’s Haftorah for Parshat Vaera, God says to the prophet Yechezkel: “Turn your face against Pharaoh King of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt. Speak these words: Thus says the Lord, I am going to deal with you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the big Tanin, who crouches in the Nile…