Shalom! This video is about the portion of Shemot, the very first portion of the book of Exodus. We left over to the end Genesis, Joseph and Jacob were in Egypt living under the protection of Ferro. Well, in change in dynasty most have occurred because right away to beginning of Exodus, we jump behind a coin of a Torah 400 years and it say “Biaka Mela Kadash” a nuking a rouse must be a new dynasty that over to the other one, who did not know Joseph. Did not care what Joseph had done and so the Israelites was a threat. And so they are in slave and only a slave, but feral decrease that offers born all the Jewish males should be killed.
Well, the Torah says that the midwife and it says Hebrew midwife is not clear if they are Jewish women. Hebrew women do their midwife and midwife all the Jewish women. They refuse to do it and fell to manage and no one except by with by coming gone to the babies are born. So here we have of case of probably righteous gentiles to only the right thing and disobeying this evil Torah. And then they have to be drowned in the sea. Well there is one family who had a baby boy and they know they have a give a map and they do want them to drown in the sea and so the mother went down and out it on a basket and send the owners toward a Merriam to go watch him. And by the way in mythological tales have many cultures. You have the hero being saved in a river in a basket, very similar here in the story.
So Fair daughters comes down to the bay in the river and she finds the baby in the river, she finds the baby, Merriam comes out of the bushes and says you are going to need a nurse maid. My mother, I know a woman who could be a nurse maid. So the mother to pour up Moses got to nurse him and he grows up with Federal’s Palace. But even answer, the great commentator suggests two reasons why Moses was raise in Federal’s Palace. One was so we could be educated as all part of God’s plan. The other was interesting that he should standout and gets the respect of Israelites that way, this is was another slave. Interesting that kind of human nature that sometime you do not respect the people that right around you to have the others to phrase (foreign language) cannot be a prophet on your own town.
Any cases of Moses grows up and that he says later to God, were God fix him for this job that he is slow to speech, so there is a Midrash or rabbinic how to explain why. Moses is born the wise man in Federal’s court said that this going to be a child he going to raise up he is going to throw you and it is Moses. So, they put him to a test, they put a hot colds and one place in the corner of the other. And then if you would grab the crown or launch for the crown which any of a normal person we do is to glitterati them. It was a hot and burning they would know that he would be after the thrown.
So according to the rabbis again like any of normal people, Moses wants this for the crown and angel last minute took his hand and moves it towards the cools and her burning in his hands and they put it in his mouth. The actual instinct of a infinite thunder and that is why burn the thumb. Any case so with one day is out and he is got empathy for the people and him since the Egyptian over the world beating a slave and he kills the Egyptians over there. And then he finds out later that a Federal is after him so he runs away immediate and they are in meets to Zipporah and they got married and have children and one day he is a shepherded and he is out supporting the sheep and according to the Midrush again, the reason I got take them was because all of baby sheep it gotten lost from the flood and he went there and the baby was tired so he puts we put on his neck because with the any shepherded of cares that much about little baby sheep will great shepherded for thy people.
So, one day is up by the burning bush, sees the a bush and it is burning and nothing consume, very all some sight and God speaks from the Mitzvah of that bush bush and calls him to take this Job and Moses sort of mind I could do and I can speak trying to get out of the Job. God says do not worry I will be with you and that is the call of Moses. And so there we have the main stories. It is interesting that Rashi, the great commentator, identifies the two midwives as the mother and sister of Moses, and they were worried for their bravery and there were Israelite women by a mother and sister of Moses.
And so, we have a lot of interesting things here about a self doubt for an important past and God assuring him that he would be with him and does not give Moses the assurance that he need how you help move people and sometimes they have to be an outsider to do a good job. The idea of this people defined Feral to the right thing of moral leadership and assuredness in a very difficult period. And this now begins the tragic and finally with story, which is consult to the humanity for so many thousands of years. The redemption of the Israelites was slave in Egypt.
Now, on our another video where I ask if this is true trying to deal with it for more scholarly prescriptive. I will be it in the five minute video but it is the Exodus is true and a lateral sets, but as the story of myth and the story that is empowered people to find for freedom from that moment forward to undeniably probably the most significant story in Human history.
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