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Parashat b’Shalaḥ

This is an archive of Torah and Haftarah readings for Parashat b’Shalaḥ (Exodus 13:17-17:16), the fourth parashah in Sefer Shemot according to the annual Torah reading cycle.

The haftarah reading for Parashat b’Shalaḥ is Judges 4:4-5:31.

Parashat b’Shalaḥ is preceded by parashat Parashat Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16). Parashat Yitro (Exodus 18:1-20:22) follows it.

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💬 Haftarah Reading for Parashat b’Shalaḥ (Judges 4:4-5:31): Chantable English translation with trōp, by Len Fellman

The haftarah reading for Parashat b’Shalaḥ, in English translation, transtropilized. . . .

Categories: Shoftim (Judges), Parashat b'Shalaḥ

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cantillated readings in English, English Translation, הפטרות haftarot, transtropilation

Contributor(s): the Masoretic Text and Len Fellman (translation)

📜 שירת הים | Shirat haYam :: the Song of the Sea (Exodus 15:1-19)

According to Rabbinic tradition, the 21st of Nissan is the day in the Jewish calendar on which Pharaoh’s army was drowned in the Sea of Reeds, and the redeemed children of Yisrael sang the Song of the Sea, the (Shirat Hayam, Exodus 15:1-19). The song, as included in the the morning prayers, comprises one of the most ancient text in Jewish liturgy. The 21st of Nissan corresponds to the 7th day of Passover, and the recitation of the Shirat HaYam is part of the daily Torah Reading. Rabbi Hillel Ḥayim Yisraeli-Lavery shares a performance of a melody he learned for the Shirat Hayam from צוף דבש Tzuf Devash, a Moroccan synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem. If there is something about this tune that strikes one as particularly celebratory, it might be because the relationship between G!d and the Jewish people is traditionally described as a marriage consummated with the Covenant at Mt. Sinai. The passage of Bnei Yisrael through the Sea of Reeds towards Mt. Sinai thus begins a bridal march commencing in the theophany at Mt. Sinai, 42 days later. . . .

Categories: Sefer Shemot (Exodus), Pesaḥ Readings, Parashat b'Shalaḥ, Shirat ha-Yam, 7th Day of Pesaḥ

Tags: אז ישיר Az Yashir, conflicting messages, קריעת ים סוף qriyat yam suf, safe passage, שירת הים Shirat haYam, Song of the Sea, symplegades, Yom Vayosha

Contributor(s): the Masoretic Text and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📜 Torah Reading for Parashat b’Shalaḥ (Exodus 13:17-17:16): Chantable English translation with trōp, by Len Fellman

A Torah reading of Parashat B’shalaḥ in English translation, transtropilized. . . .

Categories: Sefer Shemot (Exodus), Parashat b'Shalaḥ

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cantillated readings in English, English Translation, קריעת ים סוף qriyat yam suf, שירת הים Shirat haYam, Song of the Sea, transtropilation, ימי השובבים Yemei haShovavim

Contributor(s): the Masoretic Text and Len Fellman (translation)

📜 פָּרָשַׁת בְּשַׁלַּח | Parashat b’Shalaḥ (Exodus 13:17-17:16), color-coded according to its narrative layers

The text of parashat B’shalaḥ, distinguished according to the stratigraphic layers of its composition according to the Supplementary Hypothesis. . . .

Categories: Sefer Shemot (Exodus), Pesaḥ Readings, Parashat b'Shalaḥ

Tags: 31st century A.M., 8th century B.C.E., annual Torah reading cycle, liberation from mitsrayim, mythopoesis, פרשת השבוע Parashat haShavua, פרשות parashot, קריעת ים סוף qriyat yam suf, redaction criticism, שבת shabbat, פרשת בשלח parashat B'shalaḥ, שירת הים Shirat haYam, Song of the Sea, supplementary hypothesis, ימי השובבים Yemei haShovavim

Contributor(s): Tzemaḥ Yoreh, the Masoretic Text, Masoretic kernel 'E', Masoretic layer 'J', Masoretic layer 'P', Masoretic layer 'H', Masoretic layer 'B' and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

שיר חדש אשיר | Shir Ḥadash Ashir (“Song Anew”) — a traditional piyyuṭ before the Song of the Sea

This piyyuṭ, bearing the acrostic signature “Samuel,” is traditionally recited in the communities of Babylonia and India as a petiḥa, or opening poem, before the Song of the Sea. It is also sung on Shabbat Shira, the Sabbath where we read the Song of the Sea in public. This translation is an attempt to preserve the original meaning as well as the rhyme scheme and poetic form. . . .

Categories: Parashat b'Shalaḥ, 7th Day of Pesaḥ

Tags: Acrostic signature, אז ישיר Az Yashir, פיוטים piyyutim, פרשת בשלח parashat B'shalaḥ, שבת שירה shabbat shirah, שירת הים Shirat haYam, ימי השובבים Yemei haShovavim

Contributor(s): Shmuel haPaytan and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

The twelve hued rainbow above the Sea of Reeds during the miracle of its division into twelve channels of liberation

A medieval manuscript illustration of the aggadah that the Yam Suf was split in 12 discrete channels, one for each tribe, as reflected above by a 12-color rainbow . . .

Categories: Art & Craft, Parashat b'Shalaḥ, Shirat ha-Yam, 7th Day of Pesaḥ

Tags: 12th century C.E., 50th century A.M., אז ישיר Az Yashir, קריעת ים סוף qriyat yam suf, safe passage, פרשת בשלח parashat B'shalaḥ, שבת שירה shabbat shirah, שירת הים Shirat haYam, Song of the Sea, the Rainbow

Contributor(s): Moshe ben Maimon and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

🆕 אוֹדֶה אֵל שַדַּי | Odeh El Shaddai, a pizmon for Shabbat Shirah

This is a pizmon for Shabbat Shirah (Parashat B’Shalaḥ) by an unknown author. The text is as transcribed from the pizmonim included in the siddur משמרת הקדש: קול שומר שבת Mishmeret haQodesh: Qol Shomer Shabbat (Pisa 1821), p. 117. . . .

Categories: Parashat b'Shalaḥ, 7th Day of Pesaḥ

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., פיוטים piyyutim, פזמונים pizmonim, שבת שירה shabbat shirah, שירת הים Shirat haYam

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

שיר של מרים הנביאה | The Song of Miriam, a petiḥah by Rabbi Ruth H. Sohn (1981)

“The Song of Miriam” by Rabbi Ruth Sohn was first published as “I Shall Sing to the Lord a New Song,” in Kol Haneshamah: Shabbat Vehagim, Reconstructionist Prayerbook, 1989, 1995 Second Edition. Reconstructionist Press, pp. 768-769. (This poem was also published in several haggadot and other books and set to music by several composers in the U.S. and Israel.) Rabbi Sohn wrote the poem in 1981 as a rabbinical student after immersing herself in the Torah verses and the traditional midrashim about Miriam, and after writing a longer modern midrash about Miriam. Part of this modern midrash was published as “Journeys,” in All the Women Followed Her, ed. Rebecca Schwartz (Rikudei Miriam Press, 2001). . . .

Categories: Parashat b'Shalaḥ, 7th Day of Pesaḥ

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., אז ישיר Az Yashir, English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, Miriam, Opening Prayers, Openers, Prayers as poems, תפילות קודם התפילה Prayers before Praying, Prayers for Praying

Contributor(s): Ruth H. Sohn

מִרְיָם הַנְּבִיאָה | Miryam haNevi’ah, by rabbis Leila Gal Berner & Arthur Waskow (ca. 1994)

These are the lyrics of the song, Miryam haNevi’ah, written by rabbis Leila Gal Berner and Arthur Waskow (with Hebrew by Leila Gal Berner) as found published in My People’s Prayer Book, vol. 7: Shabbat at Home, (ed. L. Hoffman, 1997), section 3, p. 189. The English lyrics are from an article published several years earlier — “Memories of a Jewish Lesbian Evening” by Roger McDougle appearing in Bridges (vol. 4:1, Winter/Spring 1994), on the top of page 58. No specific date is given for the havdalah program described in the article, alas. If you know the earliest reference for the publication or use of Miryam haNevi’ah, please contact us. . . .

Categories: Parashat b'Shalaḥ, 7th Day of Pesaḥ, Motsei Shabbat

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., הבדלות havdalot, Miriam, שירת הים Shirat haYam, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Leila Gal Berner, Arthur Waskow and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

the song at the sea of ending one story and beginning another, by Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit (February 2023)

This piece emerged in February 2023 upon realizing that instead of reading ים סוף as Yam Suf (generally understood at the Sea of Reeds), it could be read as Yam Sof: Sea of End[ing]. It was apparent to me that we may have approached this sea (escaping from slavery) thinking that it would be the end of us. It was not. But it was the end of *something*. . . .

Categories: Parashat b'Shalaḥ, 7th Day of Pesaḥ

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, safe passage, יציאת מצרים Yetsiat Mitsrayim

Contributor(s): Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit

🆕 עוּרִי עוּרִי – שִׁירַת מִרְיָם וּדְבוֹרָה | Uri Uri – Song of Miriam and Devorah, a piyyut for Shabbat Shirah by the Diwan Ashira Project

“Shirat Miriam and Devorah / Uri, Uri” (Song of Miriam, Song of Deborah / Rise up, Rise Up) was first published in 2024, as the second of four piyyutim published through the Diwan Ashira Project by Ephraim Kahn. . . .

Categories: Parashat b'Shalaḥ, 7th Day of Pesaḥ

Tags: 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Devorah, Miriam, פיוטים piyyutim, רשות reshut, פרשת בשלח parashat B'shalaḥ, שבת שירה shabbat shirah, שירת הים Shirat haYam, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Diwan Ashira Project

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