{"id":40784,"date":"2018-09-24T07:34:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T04:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=40784"},"modified":"2022-04-19T09:28:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T06:28:44","slug":"milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-exodus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-exodus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MiliMiliM &#8211; The Hebrew Corner &#8211; Exodus 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[361,397],"acf":{"old_id":"40784","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34011,"related_cahpter":"52","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"\u05d5\u05ea\u05e6\u05e4\u05e0\u05d4\u05d5 - Vatitzpenehu - And she hid him\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ex 2:2, 3 &#8211; The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw how beautiful he was, she hid him &#8220;<em>vatitzpenehu<\/em>&#8221; for three months. When she could hide him &#8220;<em>hitzpino<\/em>&#8221; no longer\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2:12 &#8211; He turned this way and that and, seeing no one about, he struck down the Egyptian \u00a0and hid him &#8220;<em>vayitmenehu<\/em>&#8221; in the sand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There seems to be a whole lot of hiding going on in this chapter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, \u201cthe woman,\u201d that is Yocheved, the mother of Miriam, Aaron and this baby, to be called Moses, hides the baby, to protect him from Pharaoh\u2019s evil decree. The root used is \u05e6-\u05e4-\u05e0, <em>tz-p-n<\/em>. This root might be familiar from the Pesach seder, where of the 14 parts of the \u201cseder\u201d (order) of the seder, #11 is <em>tzafun<\/em>, \u201cthe hidden.\u201d This refers to the afikoman, that part of the matzah broken off and hidden to be eaten after the meal. In fact because of this linguistic connection, it has been suggested that the afikoman represents Moses, \u201cthe hidden one,\u201d who is also \u201chidden,\u201d at the seder, since he is not mentioned even once in this scripted retelling of the Exodus story!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another linguistic connection can be made between Moses, to become the leader of the Israelites, and the previous leader, namely Joseph. Joseph had acquired the Egyptian name Tzafnat Paneach (see Gen 41:45), which is explained in Hebrew as \u201crevealer of hidden things,\u201d since Joseph had divined the secret meanings of Pharaoh\u2019s dreams. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second is the other act of hiding, the one that Moses does. When he kills the Egyptian taskmaster who was beating a Hebrew slave, he buries, or hides him, in the sand. That whole episode is famously ambiguous: did Moses look about to make sure no one was watching, and kill the Egyptian coldly, guiltily, and then hide the corpse, trying to cover his tracks? Or did he look about and see no one was there to take charge, to right the wrongs being done, and then intervene in a burst of righteous indignation, but then honorably bury the dead Egyptian? The text admits of both interpretations &#8211; but note that a different word is used for the act of hiding\/burying. The root is \u05d8-\u05de-\u05e0, t-m-n, and indeed refers to things hidden in the ground, or buried. Modern Hebrew uses this root for a garbage dump (<em>matmena<\/em>). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It seems the act of hiding itself is ambiguous: we can hide something precious to protect it, we can hide something problematic to literally cover it up, and we can hide something (a secret) only for it to be revealed by or to the appropriate people at the right time. God too can hide, or be hidden, but that uses even another root (\u05e1-\u05ea-\u05e8, s-t-r, \u201c<em>hester<\/em>\u201d) to be discussed in another chapter. <\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":104100,"id":104100,"title":"-625c25693a28a--625c25693a28fex2-milim vatitzpenehu.jpg","filename":"625c25693a28a-625c25693a28fex2-milim-vatitzpenehu.jpg.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/625c25693a28a-625c25693a28fex2-milim-vatitzpenehu.jpg.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-exodus-2\/625c25693a28a-625c25693a28fex2-milim-vatitzpenehu-jpg\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"625c25693a28a-625c25693a28fex2-milim-vatitzpenehu-jpg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":40784,"date":"2022-04-17 14:34:17","modified":"2022-04-17 14:34:30","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":960,"height":720,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/625c25693a28a-625c25693a28fex2-milim-vatitzpenehu.jpg-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/625c25693a28a-625c25693a28fex2-milim-vatitzpenehu.jpg-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/625c25693a28a-625c25693a28fex2-milim-vatitzpenehu.jpg-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/625c25693a28a-625c25693a28fex2-milim-vatitzpenehu.jpg.jpg","large-width":960,"large-height":720,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/625c25693a28a-625c25693a28fex2-milim-vatitzpenehu.jpg.jpg","1536x1536-width":960,"1536x1536-height":720,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/625c25693a28a-625c25693a28fex2-milim-vatitzpenehu.jpg.jpg","2048x2048-width":960,"2048x2048-height":720,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/625c25693a28a-625c25693a28fex2-milim-vatitzpenehu.jpg.jpg","post_full_size-width":960,"post_full_size-height":720,"home_baner":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/625c25693a28a-625c25693a28fex2-milim-vatitzpenehu.jpg-560x420.jpg","home_baner-width":560,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"MiliMiliM - 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