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Parshat Bo: Coming or Going

Posted on January 21, 2026

Parshat Bo’s name is confusing. As the stage is set for the eighth plague, locusts, God calls on Moses to go (again) to Pharaoh and demand the people’s freedom. But the word used here by God, “Bo,” means not “go,” but rather, “come.” Why is this?  The answer of the rabbinical commentators is that Moses Continue Reading »