Shemot 5768: The Power of Seeing

Posted by Pardes Faculty on January 4, 2026
Topics: Tanakh, Torah, Pardes from Jerusalem, Shemot, Shemot (Exodus)

If redemption begins with seeing, what are we choosing not to see?

In this episode, Zvi Hirschfield and Rabbi Dr. Daniel Reifman explore Parshat Shemot as a story shaped by anonymity, forgetting, and the struggle to know—God, others, and ourselves. They trace how the absence of names and divine presence gives way to redemption through acts of moral seeing, from the midwives to Moshe. The conversation asks how awareness, responsibility, and truly seeing others become the first steps toward knowing God and breaking cycles of oppression.

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