Shemot

 The first section of the Book of Exodus opens with a list of the names (shemot) of Jacob's sons and then records the growth of their descendants into a nation and their slavery in Egypt. 

As the conditions of slavery worsen, the Israelites cry out to God and God then commissions Moses with the mission of freeing the Israelites from slavery to receive the Torah.

God told them that the purpose of their redemption was so that they could take up their role as moral leaders of humanity, directing the world toward its divine mission as God's true dwelling place.

Thirty years of forced labor failed to break the spirit or curb the fertility of Israel, and Pharaoh made their slavery even worse with meaningless, hard tasks.

Five years after subjecting the Israelites to this demoralizing work, Moses was born to Amram (father's name) and Yocheved (mother's name) from the tribe of Levi.

Pharaoh's astrologers knew that the future liberator of the nation of Israel had been born, so Pharaoh tried to prevent this liberation by decreeing that every newborn Jewish male child must be killed.

Pharaoh gave orders to all his Jewish citizens: "You must throw all male children born into the Nile River, but female relatives must be left alive" (Exodus 1:22).

By ordering the Jews to “let every girl live,” the pharaoh's intention was that Jewish girls would be raised as Egyptians.

So the meaning of Pharaoh's command was "that men be killed physically and women be killed spiritually".

The decision to throw the boys into the Nile River also illustrates immersing the Israelis in Egyptian culture, because the Egyptians revered the Nile River as a source of livelihood and their culture.

Egypt is the prototype of all exiles and in exile, the ruling culture encourages us to raise our children in their way, promising that this is the path to material and social success.

But the Israelites rejected the Egyptian way of life and made sure that their children grew up upholding the values ​​of the Torah.

This was what would guarantee their material, social and spiritual happiness and their freedom from the bonds of exile.

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