BROTHERS

“These are the Aharon and Moshe to whom Adonai said, ‘Bring the people of Isra’el out of the land of Egypt, division by division.’”
Exodus 6:26

As I began to read this portion of the Parashah, I began to grow a little bored. Where was the action? Where was the thundering voice or the flaming vengeance? Where was the war or the conversations that I could see myself in? In reading, it was just a bunch of names about who fathered who. The portion shared the piece about Re’uven’s descendants, and then of Shim’on, and then Levi. But it stopped with Levi. In fact, it seemed to spend more time in Levi’s line. Levi lived to be 137 and his second son was K’hat. K’hat lived to be 133 and his first son was ‘Amram. ‘Amram lived to be 137 and he married Yokheved, together parenting the names we have come to know, Aharon and Moshe. And it was these two sons, these brothers, who Adonai spoke with to bring His people home.

Exodus 6:14-28