Weekly Torah Portion – Shemot

This week's torah portion, Shemot, marks the beginning of the second book of Torah - the Book Of Exodus. In these early stories of moving towards liberation, we find a Moses who is hesitant to lead the people out of slavery: what if they do not listen to me, he asks. Yet they do. Most of the time we are more likely to be surprised than for our expectations of complete failure met.