• Journey into the desert (13:17-14:3)
  • Roundabout path into the wilderness to the Sea of Reeds, from Sukkot to Etham
  • Pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night
  • Baal Tzefon

• Pharaoh pursues Israel (14:4-20)
  • Hashem made Pharaoh’s heart hard again
  • The final proof that HE is Gd
  • Pharaoh took 600 chariots
  • The people panic, saying they should have stayed in Egypt
  • Moshe tells them to calm down and wait to see what Gd will do

• Splitting of the Sea (14:21)
  • Moshe stretches out his hand
  • An east wind blows, and the sea splits

• Passing through the Sea (14:22-31)
  • Israel passes through on dry land
  • The Egyptians pursue
  • The waters come back over the Egyptians
  • Israel sees the Egyptians dead

• Song of the Sea (15:1-19)
  • Moshe sings the song of victory over the Egyptians
  • Praise of Gd’s might—“Gd is a man of war…”
  • Description of the death of Egypt
  • The nations have heard
  • Gd has secured His Sanctuary—looking forward to the ultimate reason for Redemption

• Miriam leads the women (15:20-21)
  • Miriam dances with the timbrel

• People do not want to leave the shores of the Sea (15:22)
  • Moshe made the people leave

• Lack of water at Mara (15:23-26)
  • Bitter waters at Mara make the people cry
  • Gd tells Moshe to throw a tree into the water, and it becomes sweetened
  • Moshe teaches the people the Law (vs. 25-26)
  • Seven Noahide Laws
  • Shabbat
  • Honor your parents
  • Civil laws
  • “I, Gd, am your Healer.”

• Camp at Elim (15:27)
  • Oasis of twelve springs and seventy palms

• Request for bread and meat (16:1-12)
  • Arrive at the wilderness of Sin the 15th day of the month
  • Complaints of hunger
  • Gd instructs Moshe about the mann
  • Moshe and Aharon tell the people they will get bread in the morning.
  • When they still murmur, Moshe tells them they will have meat in the evening.

• Quail and mann (16:13-31)
  • Quail cover the ground in the evening
  • Mann is under the morning dew
  • They are told not to gather more than one day’s portion, but some do and it rots.
  • They are told to gather a double portion of mann on the sixth day for Shabbat
  • Instructions on observing Shabbat, not working

• Preservation of a jar of mann (16:32-36)
  • Put an omerful of mann into a cooling-jar to be kept for your descendants

• Water at Refidim (17:1-7)
  • No water at Refidim
  • Moshe is told to strike the rock in Horev
  • The place is called Testing-and-Quarreling, because they put Gd to the test

• Attack of Amalek (17:8-16)
  • Fought Israel at Refidim
  • Moshe sent Yehoshua to lead the army
  • Moshe held up his hands, supported by Aharon and Hur.
  • Moshe built an altar called: Gd-Is-My-Banner…sovereignty of the throne of Gd means war for Gd against Amalek generation to generation.

• Names of Hashem in Beshalach
  • Hashem Rafah -- I, Gd, am your Healer (15:26)
  • Hashem Nissi – Gd-Is-My-Banner (17:15)

Contact:
Miriam Ben-Yaacov