D'var For Bo

This week's D'var was written by Kenny Shuster.

This week's Parsha, Bo, talks about the last three plagues in Egypt: locusts devouring all the food, darkness enveloping Egypt, and the death of the firstborns of every Egyptian family. G-d then tells the Israelites to create a lunar calendar and to wipe the blood of a lamb on their door posts so He will pass over them when He kills the Egyptian firstborn. In anguish over the death of his son, Pharaoh finally allows the Israelites to leave, but not before getting their neighbors' gold, silver, and jewelry, thus fulfilling G-d's promise to Abraham that his descendants will leave slavery with riches. Then, the Israelites are commanded to consecrate the firstborn and to always remember the Exodus from Egypt.