{"id":2531,"date":"2023-01-29T07:34:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T14:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2023-01-29T07:39:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T14:39:32","slug":"parsha-bo-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2531","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cBo\u201d teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The story of the plagues of Egypt and the Exodus continues with Parsha Bo (Exodus\/Shemot 10:1 &#8211; 13:16).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of the story is familiar, but this week the final &#8216;set of three&#8217; plagues concludes, setting up the finale, with the &#8216;Death of the Firstborn,&#8217; and more importantly, the Passover event that we are to remember, and teach our children, forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat overview of the whole parsha tells us WHY, more than once, this is so important:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SSM-1-27-23-Bo-teacing-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark has to ask a question to set up the Sabbath day midrash: With the whole world poised on the brink of nuclear conflagration &#8211; arguably at a more dangerous point than any of us have EVER seen in any of our lives &#8211; why are we talking about an event, and a feast to commemorate it, that happened so many thousands of years ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the answer, for reasons that will be clear, but may sound a bit familiar anyway, is that understanding His &#8220;signs,&#8221; and the reasons for them &#8211; not just then, but ESPECIALLY now, have never been more vital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judgments on the fake gods of modern Egypt are just as real, but His point hasn&#8217;t changed, and neither has He.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He &#8220;put a difference&#8221; between those who were His and the rest of Egypt that first time. But those who became the &#8216;mixed multitude&#8217; had to make a choice to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Bo: Signs Memorials and Circumcision &#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/WT-CooH-1-28-23-Bo-Whistler-backup-combo-WHY-Pesach-Circumcision-and-Minimum-Necessary-Conditions-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<br>The combined two-part podcast is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-bo-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-5\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-bo-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa Fellowship&#8217;s 2023 Torah cycle teachings for parsha Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16) and related, including Acts 15. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2531\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,5,1742,69,35,31,11],"tags":[302,511,301,88,1787,63,104,1789,1788,321,1443,1161,212,318,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2534,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}