The Daily Aliyah Show

G-d has the sea collapse in on the Egyptians, and they all drown. Moshe leads the men in a song declaring G-d's power, and Miriam does the same with the women. The Jews travel to Marah where they find water after thirsting for 3 days straight. Moshe makes the water drinkable. Q: Why are the Jews tested again immediately after leaving Egypt?

G-d splits the red sea and the Jews head in. The Egyptians chase after them and get brutalized soon after.

Pharoah and his army charge after the Jews and corner them by the Sea of Reeds. The Jews become extremely afraid and call out to G-d in prayer and complain to Moshe.

G-d leads the Jews out of Egypt, but then has then come right back! Come find out why!

Moshe conveys more laws about Pesach and introduces the new law of sanctification of the firstborns. Q: What is a rational behind the mitzvah of sanctification of the firstborn?

G-d smites all the firstborn non-Jews in Egypt. The Jews clean out Egypt of all its valuables, and finally leave the land. They travel to Succos. The Torah enumerates a few more laws regarding the Korban Pesach.

Moshe warns Pharoah with the plague of the firstborn. G-d commands Moshe with the law of Sanctifying the New Moon, restarting the count of months starting from Nissan, and the various laws of Pesach. Moshe relays the laws to the Jews, and the Jews obey.

Pharoah tells Moshe to go serve G-d, but to only leave their animals back in Egypt. Moshe tells Pharoah that they need all of their animals. G-d tells Moshe that He’s going to bring one final plague, and then the Jews will leave Egypt. G-d requests that the Jews borrow gold and silver from the Egyptians.

Moshe brings the 8th and 9th plagues: Locusts and extreme darkness. Q: The Torah emphasizes how extraordinary this locust swarm was. Why? What was so extraordinary about it?

G-d informs Moshe that He Himself is making Pharoah stubborn against his own will for the sake of bringing more plagues. Moshe brings the 8th plague, locusts, against Egypt. Pharoah tells Moshe he can go sacrifice to his G-d, but only with the men. Everyone else must remain in Egypt. Q: Moshe requests that the children come with them to participate in the services. What role do they play? They don...

Egypt is struck with wild beasts ravaging the land, a disease which wipes out Egyptian animals, painful boils, and powerful hail. And yet, Pharoah does not let the Jews leave Egypt. Q: How was Pharoah able to remain stubborn even after seeing 7 supernatural miracles before his very eyes?

Hashem gives Moshe insight regarding his divine names. Hashem sends Moshe to Pharoah for the second time to tell him to send the Jews out of Egypt. Pharoah refuses, and the first 3 plagues are sent upon Egypt: Blood, Frogs, and Lice.

Moshe returns to Egypt and asks Pharoah to let the Jews offer sacrifices for a few days outside of the land of Egypt (a ploy for them to escape). Pharoah refuses, and makes the workload even more difficult for the Jews.

G-d continues to persuade Moshe to accept the mission of redeeming the Jews from Egypt. Q: Is it possible that Moshe is defying G-d when he doesn’t immediately accept the job?

Moshe stumbles upon a burning bush on Har Sinai. G-d introduces himself to Moshe and charges Moshe with the task of taking the Jews out of Egypt.

Moshe sees an Egyptian taskmaster beating a Jew and kills him. Moshe is discovered to have killed the Egyptian man and flees to Midian. There he gets married and has a son named Gershom.

G-d rewards the two Jewish midwives for not killing the baby boys with houses. Pharoah enacts a new decree to kill all baby boys. Moshe is born and is saved by the daughter of Pharoah.

The Jews proliferate greatly in the land of Egypt. A new king rises in the land of Egypt, and begins taking measures against the Jews in order to keep them at bay.

In the final Aliyah of Sefer Bereishes, Yosef instructs his family to bring his remains to the land of Israel after he dies. Yosef dies at the age of 110.

Yaakov concludes his parting messages with his sons. Yaakov dies and is brought up to the land of Israel to be buried in the Ma’aras Hamachpelah.

Yaakov begins to share his final messages with his sons.

Yaakov gives a bracha to Efraim and Menashe. Yaakov gives the land of Shechem to Yosef. Q: If Efriam was destined to be greater, shouldn’t that be a reason to give Menashe the greater bracha?

Yaakov lives 17 years in Egypt, and realizes he’s going to die soon. Yosef swears to bury Yaakov in Canaan. Yaakov gifts Yosef by splitting up his tribe into two tribes through Menashe and Efraim. Yaakov blesses Yosef.

Yaakov and his family settles in the land of Goshen. The Egyptians become serfs to Pharoah when they exhaust all their possessions in order to buy food. Yosef seems to have his brother’s benefit in mind even before he’s able to forgive them. How was able to do this?

Yosef convinces Pharoah to give Yaakov and his sons the land of Goshen. Yosef introduces his father Yaakov to Pharoah.