Concepts
Last three Makkos
Why is the first law now and not at the beginning of the Torah?
People
Moshe, Aharon, First-born
Places
Mitzrayim
Animals
Sheep
Mitzvos
20 mitzvos (9 positive, 11 prohibitions) in the Parsha
(Number 4-23 of 613 mitzvos in the Torah)
- 4. Courts to sancitfy the new month - Kiddush haChodesh
- 5. To shecht the sheep for the Pesach offering
- 6. To eat the Pesach offering on the night of the 15th of Nissan with Matzah and Marror
- 7. Not to eat the Pesach raw or boiled
- 8. Not to leave over meat from the Pesach until the morning
- 9. Remove Chametz on the 14th of Nissan
- 10. To eat Mitzvah Matzah on the night of the 15th of Nissan
- 11. Chametz should not be found in your domain seven days of Pesach
- 12. Not to eat food containing chametz
- 13. Not to feed the Pesach to any apostate Jew
- 14. Not to feed chametz to a resident non-Jew
- 15. Not to take out Pesach meat from the confines of your group
- 16. Not to break the bone of the Pesach
- 17. An uncircumcised Jew may not eat from the Pesach offering
- 18. Sanctifying the First-born in Eretz Yisrael
- 19. Not to eat Chametz on Pesach
- 20. Chametz should not be seen in your domain during the seven days of Pesach
- 21. Telling the story of Yetzias Mitzrayim on the 15th of Nissan
- 22. Redeeming the First-born donkey
- 23. Killing a First-born donkey if it is not redeemed
Years from Creation
Timeline
2448 Shvat Eighth Plague - Locust
Adar Ninth Plague – Darkness
Nisan Tenth Plague – Death of the First Born
Sedra-Stats
15th of the 54 sedras; 3rd of 11 in Sefer Shmos
Written on 205.67 lines in a Sefer Torah; ranks 24th
14 parshios: 8 open, 6 closed
Comparison Shmos to the other sedras:
106 pesukim - 29th of 54 (7th of 11 in Shmos); its pesukim are above average in length
1655 words – 21st (5th in Shmos)
6149 letters - 20th (6th in Shmos)
We Learn from this Parsha
When a mitzvah comes your way, do it right away. “And you should watch over the matzos.” Don’t read the word matzos מָצוֹת but read it Mitzvos מִצְוֹת. Just as we do not delay baking the matzah, so too we do not delay in performing a Mitzvah.
