Tanakh Test #2

• Someone who belongs to the tribe Levi took Yochebed as his wife. Yochebed was also a Levi, It was a big risk to get married because pharaoh decreed otherwise

• The woman gave birth to a child and saw how good he was
• She hid him for 3 months until the egyptians came to check
• He was born 6 months(חודשים) premature. This let her hide him until the egyptians came to check.
• He was born without foreskin and was very handsome

• She could not hide him anymore because the egyptians came to check after 9 months of her pregnancy
• She made a basket out of reeds and sealed the inside with clay and outside with tar. She put clay on the inside so the smell wouldnt bother him
• She put him at the end of the river so he was hidden by the bushes

• Moses sister miriam watched him from afar to know if something happened to him

• And pharoahs daughters went inside the nile. What does this mean?
  • She went inside the nile
  • She was bathing inher palace and went down
• And she sent her arms. What does this mean?
  • She sent her maidservants
  • Her arms grew to take the basket

• Finding a child in a basket is rare.
• She saw the schechina(divine presence) in him
• "crying teenager" means he was very handsome with developed limbs and a mature mind
• She knew he was hebrew

• Miriam risks her life to sacrifice the baby. she ties herself to him
• She believed in her family
• She is ready to sacrifice her life
• After seeing him cry, she understood he was hungry but he refused to be fed by an egyptian woman because he had a future with the schechina and was a prophet so he didnt want to be fed by a non-jew

• Pharoahs daughter asked miriam to bring a woman–His mother who was capable of feeding him
• Miriams daughter was in her peak form. She ran really fast because she was excited as she succeeded in her mission of keeping the baby alive

• Pharoahs daughter tells miriam to feed him. She acccepts her offer
• Miriam takes him to yochebed so he could be nursed
• Miriam would be rewarded for this
• Her rebellion against her father reveals her strong character. She decided to care about the baby even though pharoah didnt

• After moses grew up miriam took him to pharoahs daughter who adopted him and named him moses because she 'took him out' of the water.
• Hazkuni says that he was called moses because the jews were taken out of 'egypt.

• Moses was in the palace when he saw an egyptian beating a jew. He was devastated and took it to heart.
• He saw an egyptian hitting the husband of 'shlomit; a very attractive lady. The egptian man assigned her husband a night job far away while he raped his wife. The egyptian beat hi mbecause he felt her husband knew something.
• The reptition of his 'growth' tells us that his first growth was physical, and the second spiritural

• Moses was devastated. He understood the cruelty of the supervisor. He made a careful and calculated strike when nobody was looking(מסתכל)
• He made the stirke out of brotherhood for his jewish brothers and to maintain justice(אחווה, צֶדֶק)

• He saw two jews fighting outside and asked the agressor why he was htting his brother.
• He was shocked when he saw them fighting but not as pushed to act as before. These people fighting each other are datan and avram. Who complained against moshe many times
• The minute someone lifts a hand against another jew, he is considered evil.(מרים יד נגד)

• The aggressor asks moshe who is he to judge and if she should kill him like he killed the egyptians.
• Moshe was scared because people knew what he did yesterday
• He understands now why the jews are being punished–they are infighting (-נלחמים בינם לבין עצמם)

• Pharoah found out about what moshe did and wants to kill him
• Moshe fled to a well because it was a central place. He went there to meet many people and gather information(לאסוף מידע).
• He also went to the well because this whas where his great-grandfather jacob stopped when he fled from esau
• He was planning for the future

• The leader of midian–ruel has 7 daughters and 0 male children
• He is the religious leader of midian
• The sisters provide for the family
• They come to the well with a bucket tied to a string and fill it up so the sheep can drink
• And the shepherd men come early and they push the girls away
• In midian, women are below men(נשים מתחת לגברים)
• Moses witnesses this and pushes the shephards away and waters the sheep because he cannot stand what the shepherds did(משקה את הכבשים)

• The women come early from the well. Their father expected them to come bak later because they had to wait for the shepherds to finish
• Their father is ruel. the leader of midian
• Because of moses' help, they came back earlier because moses stopped the shephereds and watered their animals

• They told ruel there was an egyptian man who rescued them from the shepherds and watered their sheep
• They assumed(הניחו) he was egyptian because egypt was close and he was dressed like an egyptian

• Ruel asks them why they left him. He wants to bring him to eat
• He wants to do the mitzvah of recognizing good
• He wants to marry off one of his daughters too
• Ruel says that moses' story of helping them at the well reminds him of the story of jacob, and is dissapointed at the missed opprotunity to meet a relative of jacob.

• Moses agreed to sit in ruel's house and he broguht his daughter tziporah to moses.
• He swears to bless ruel and his family

A child was born with the name gershom because moses was a stranger in a strange land(זר בארץ זרה)

• The king of egypt dies and the israelites were tired of the labor and they screamed to god and he heard htem
• What will happen now?
  • There will be a worse king
  • Better king
  • things will remain the same
• Moses is obligated to help the jewishpeople They need salvation
• When pharoah killed the baby boys, he took some of their blood to shower. He died because he ordered every baby boy to be killed

• GOod heard their suffering and remembered the covenant and realized it was time to forgive them.