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Welcome back to “In Imma’s Eyes” a podcast where we journey through the weekly Torah portion and glean parenting insights along the way. Personally, I have been on this parenting journey for the past 25 years, in truth most of my life, and I am just on a quest to learn all I can about being the best parent I can be, to my physical children, my own Inner Child, as well as my spiritual children, using G-d as the perfect template. It is my heart that my hindsight can become your insight. Let’s learn together.
This week we are studying Parashat Shemot (Exodus 1:1-6:1). We left the Book of Genesis last week with Jacob and Joseph’s funerals…The book of Genesis was how one man had a family who all knew and served Hashem. We turn the page and now in Shemot, we see the family of 70 is becoming a nation. Shemot is the story of the birth of the nation, birth pangs and all.
G-d IS BACK, and in flashy form! G-d begins a season of complete transformation with miracles. We have returned, once again, to G-d interfacing with human history. No longer guiding from the side, G-d is the main protaganist of the drama. Dance pattern with Hashem. Sometime we initiate, like the Israelites crying out for mercy, sometimes Hashem initiates, like the burning bush. And we see this beautiful contrast between the more masculine leadership of Moses and the more feminine, yet no less powerful, leadership of Miriam.
Parenting Touchpoint:
Transitions. I think G-d is much more hands on during key Transitions. We have been talking about this intimacy dance in many different ways throughout Beresheit. But, look at the many details G-d is getting involved with so far in this story…the "minutes and millimeters" type miracles, the more flashy type Miracles (the burning bush), and the orchestrated weaving of multiple human stories into one. G-d is kinda going all "Mama Bear" on Pharoah, right? I have never been able to understand why people give G-d such a hard time for being fierce…G-d isn’t angry. To me G-d seems FIERCE like the way a mother protects her baby from harm.
Coincidence is G-d’s way of remaining anonymous. Tell the story of the airbnb cancellation. G-d KNEW we were going to need that week of vacation to settle into our new home.
Thanks for tuning in: May the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob bless you with eyes that can see G-d’s hand in the minutes and millimeters of your life today. Until next time, Shalom!
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