Welcome back to the Book of Shemot! We’re starting a brand new book, but don’t worry, we have some familiar friends to help us move through it. Welcoming back #TeamPlotkin (Jewish professionals Aliza and Jason Plotkin), we engage with this week’s parasha through a new lens: that of adoption. Jason and Aliza walk us through how adoption can be seen and understood as a Jewish value, as we explore the different family structures that Shemot provides us within our first three chapters of this new book of Exodus (Shemot!).

Jewish tradition of adoption:
Parashat Vayechi (Gen 48:5): Jacob takes Ephraim and Manasseh as his own
Parashat Shemot (Ex 2:5-10): Bat Paraoh takes Moses as her own Book of Ruth
Ruth (4:16-17): Naomi takes Ruth’s son as her own Book of Esther
Esther (2:7): Mordechai takes on a foster-father role for Esther Sanhedrin 19b: Anyone who raises someone, it is as if someone has given birth to that person.

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Edited by Michael Iaciofano