Lessons for today,
Shabbos, 21 Tevet, 5786 - January 10, 2026
Summary of Today's Chumash In the seventh aliyah Moshe and Aharon go to Pharaoh. (The elders start to go with them, but slip away one by one out of fear, and because of this they did not get to go up to Mount Sinai when the Torah was given.) Moshe and Aharon say to Pharaoh "Let my people go so they can serve G-d" and Pharaoh refuses. Immediately following this Pharaoh increases the burden of the Jews by no longer giving them straw to make bricks, yet insisting on the same quota of bricks being produced. Moshe sees how things had gotten worse for the Jews since he came, so he talks to G-d about it. G-d says that now you will see how, because of a strong hand, Pharaoh will let the Jews go.
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