One of Judaism’s great figures is the man called Moshe Rabbenu (‘Moses our teacher’) in Hebrew. The first five books of the Bible are traditionally ascribed to him. Moses is the channel between God and the Hebrews, through whom the Hebrews received a basic charter for living as God’s people.Over a thousand years after Abraham, the Jews were living as slaves in Egypt. Their leader was a prophet called Moses.
Moses led the Jews out of slavery in Egypt and led them to the Holy Land that God had promised them.The escape of the Jews from Egypt is remembered by Jews every year in the festival of Passover.
The Jews were helped on their journey by God; the same God who’d promised Abraham that he would look after the Jews. God parted the Red Sea to help them escape and helped them in many other ways.
When they reached a Mount Sinai, in present day Egypt, God spoke to Moses high on the mountain slopes and made a deal (called a covenant) with the Jews that renewed the one he had made with Abraham.
