Parashas Shemos

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Shemos.
It is in this Parsha in the Second Book of the Torah that Moshe brought down to us from HaShem,that we are introduced to our beloved Moshe who HaShem appointed to lead us out of Egypt and into Canaan The Holy Land .The Five Books of Moses are so named as it was our beloved Moses who brought to us the words of G-D . Moshe had 10 names.He was born with the name Yekutiel but the name Moshe,that Basya the daughter of Par'o (Pharoah) who drew him out of the water,gave him, was the name that HaShem chose to remain as the name he would be called.Basya was in the process of following a Jewish path and converted to Judaism and so,received the name 'Basya,' which means 'daughter of G-D,' for she saved Moshe,who was close to G-D's heart and a precious child of HaShem's Creation.
Names are so important, as within each of our names,are our destiny.Names we receive are not just Earthly but hold within them,a spiritual pathway that HaShem wants us to travel on.With Moshe,whose name means to 'Draw Out,' we see the same idea , where Moshe who was 'drawn out of the water,' ended up drawing out his people from Egyptian slavery and leading them to the Holy Land.Names are so important.
The second book of the Torah starts out with the Hebrew words 'Ve-Eileh Shemos B'nei Yisrael Ha'Ba'im Mitzraima Eit Yaakov Ish Uveito Ba'u,' - 'And these are the names of the Children of Israel who were coming to Egypt,with Jacob,each man and his household came.'The names of the tribes are then mentioned and then the Torah goes straight into the happening of how we Jews became slaves.
Why the need to mention that 'these are the names ,' followed by only the names of the tribal leaders and then go straight into the hardship we suffered?
The answer to this is that the Children of Israel that were now living among the Egyptians started to take on their pagan ways and if not follow them, then acknowledge their pagan rituals.The only thing they kept was their 'Shemos,' their 'Jewish Hebrew Names.' For that alone,we deserved to be saved from the slavery we were subjected to. This is the story of the Jew for centuries.When we start to lessen on our Yiddishkeit and Torah and start to make our own belief less strict and go toward the beliefs of that which HaShem did not Command,we put ourselves in the postion to be reminded, by hardships.The same happened in Shushan in the sad events of Purim where Esther and Mordechai had to remind us who we were and not to follow the beliefs of others.The same goes for Israel as a country.This is not a secular country like others,living secular lives with some who don't go according to Torah.This is to be a land where HaShem Wishes to dwell close and this can only happen when Torah is kept there.This can only happen when we keep this land as HaShem instructed us to and not bring into it ,that which HaShem Commands is wrong.This is the same as our people who need to stick fast and hard to Torah Yiddishkeit and shun all things pagan and wrong ,by HaShem.We are not to follow the ways of any form of paganism,no matter how coated it may look.This is what happened in Egypt.The Children of Israel were attracted to foreign ways and so,we went into 'a very harsh' slavery.Though the slavery was ordained long before,the extremes of it were dictated by the actions of our people,acknowledging pagan ways.
Our saving Mitzvah was the fact that we kept to our Jewish Hebrew names 'Shemos,' and did not take on the names of pagan Egypt.This was one of the things that made us worthy for saving from Miztrayim,a place of pagan borders. 
It also took a man like Moshe who stood up for who he was and saved Dasan when an Egyptian was beating him over an issue of his wife Shelomis.Moshe ,who also became a prince of Egypt,made sure that our people the Children of Israel would get one day in seven to rest from our burdens ,the day of the Sabbath. Moshe never just sat down and remained a prince of Egypt,but stood up for who he was and went down to the brickpits to help his fellow Jews.
This is how the Jew must be.
Though the Jews find themselves in lands that are not Israel,we are to show our faithfulness to G-D as did Yosef's sons Ephraim and Menasseh, through whom we bless our children on Shabbos to this very day, to keep to the Torah of our forefathers faithfully for G-D , even in exile. 
This is what it means to be a Jew.To be a light to the nations in teaching the nations the true path of HaShem and His Oneness.This is the Name we as Jews are to carry,to keep to our Holy Torah Laws and Ways and to turn away from all things pagan.There is One True Torah and One True Tanach and only This is to be followed . Only This One Tanach from the One and Holy HaShem is to be followed.
HaShem redeemed us from slavery,but the ones who had strongly gone to foreign ways,never left Egypt,but died in the plague. HaShem sent 10 plagues on Egypt , a nation that never kept to the tenets of G-D and the Ten Commandments that were given at Mount Sinai after we were freed, stand as a testimony to all nations that G-D is One and in His World,only He must be followed His Way Only.Only G-D knows what this World needs to get to where it needs to go and may the time come that all people put their wants and needs aside and follow G-D Only.
Let us all make a Holy 'Shemos' -  'Name ' for this World by carrying HaShem's Name within us and promoting His Name and His Cause and His Laws for all to follow .
Let this World carry HaShem's Holy Name and shine out to Heaven so that Heaven and Earth can be one with Creation being permeated with the 'Shemos' - 'Name' of HaShem . 
With deep love to HaShem ,I wish You HaShem ,a Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love and to my fellow Yidden,a. Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love