Shemot 2:11

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[2025-11-25 Tue]

1. Source

וַיְהִ֣י ׀ בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֗ם וַיִּגְדַּ֤ל מֹשֶׁה֙ וַיֵּצֵ֣א אֶל־אֶחָ֔יו וַיַּ֖רְא בְּסִבְלֹתָ֑ם וַיַּרְא֙ אִ֣ישׁ מִצְרִ֔י מַכֶּ֥ה אִישׁ־עִבְרִ֖י מֵאֶחָֽיו׃ Some time after that, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his kinsfolk and witnessed their labors. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his kinsmen

2. Explanation

Moses was in the palace and he went to the place were the jews(his brothers, he recognized he wasnt egyptian) were working and he saw their suffering. When he saw their suffering, he took it to heart–he was devastated and found out that he was a jew–he wanted to see what is going on. He sees an egyptian hitting the husband of 'Shlomit', a verry attractive lady. The egyptian man assigned her husband a job @ night far away while he raped his wife. The egyptian beat him because he felt her husband knew something. Moses struck the egyptian man.

2.1. Rashi

When we read the verse, we immediately raise a question "the previous verse(shemot 2:10) says 'and the child grew' and this one says 'and moshe grew' why s there a repetition? The repetition is there to tell us that the first growth was a physical growth, while the second one was spiritual.

3. Elsewhere

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