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Moses' life parallels many complexities of modern American family life. He was raised in an open adoption. According to the midrash, his birth parents divorced and remarried before he was born. He lived with his birth family until he was weaned, around age 3-4, and then lived with his adoptive single mother.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With his birth family, Moses developed a strong identification with his people and their destiny. With his adoptive royal family, he developed confidence and skills which allowed him to challenge a different Pharaoh and lead the Israelites to freedom and responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the home of Jethro (Yitro), his mentor and father-in-law, these pieces of Moses' identity came together and his mission was revealed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

2:18-22 The girls came home early today from the well. The shepherds from the next village are giving them trouble again. The girls said that an Egyptian man saved them and fed the sheep. Zipporah reported that he was dressed in fine but haggard clothes. The girls were frightened, otherwise, surely, they would have invited this newcomer to join us for a meal.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We fetched the Egyptian. His name is Moses and he has agreed to stay with us for a time. He said he comes from a slave family but he was raised by the Pharaoh's daughter. One day he saw his cousin beaten by a taskmaster. Moses was so angry he killed the taskmaster. Now the Pharaoh is after him. I don\u2019t know how much of the story to believe, but it\u2019s clear he's been on the run for some time now. From the way he helped my daughters, he is a man of justice and action. Moses needs quiet but he must not be idle; he needs a task, perhaps a wife as well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

...<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses is good with the sheep, hard working, responsible. The quiet here calms him. Moses has told me more of his story. He is dedicated to his slave people, but he is afraid to return. I've never heard of a runaway slave so dedicated to freeing his fellow slaves. On the other hand, Moses has a comfortable life with us. I wonder whether he will some day return to Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Three of my daughters are of marriageable age. Who would make a suitable match for Moses? How I wish their mother was alive. It is difficult to be responsible for the happiness and productivity of two people together. Perhaps I should let them decide. No, this is my responsibility; it is far too important. Zipporah is most suitable. Her quiet strength and spiritual awareness will help Moses. In time, they could become soulmates.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

...<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I am a grandfather! Moses named him Gershom, \"stranger there.\" Midian is still not his home and we are still not really his family. I think that soon Moses will find a way to return to his people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Verses 12-15 explain Moses\u2019s realization that he is an Israelite and that the slaves are his brethren. But the Torah is silent on exactly how Moses knew about this and what caused him to kill the Egyptian.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n

The 1998 Dreamworks movie \u201cThe Prince of Egypt\u201d is a fascinating take on the Exodus story. Like most movies about the Torah, it takes several artistic liberties. But within those liberties are some very interesting interpretations of certain verses. (Besides, it has some great songs and is usually a pre-pesach must watch in our house).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the movie, Moses finds out from Miriam that he is an Israelite. At first, he does not believe her, but he then has a dream where he learns the truth about Pharaoh sending the Israelite babies to their death. <\/span>In this clip<\/span><\/a> it is the day after. The scene does an amazing job showing the build-up of the torment in Moses\u2019s mind and heart. He is pulled by Ramses, his brother, in one direction, and then the cries of his brethren, the slaves in the other. Finally, he breaks free and tries to save an old man from being beaten, and accidentally kills the Egyptian taskmaster. Ramses attempts to console Moses, but Moses is so overwhelmed by his recent revelation that he runs away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The clip shows Moses killing the Egyptian, but what about the burial in the sand? That part comes at the very end of the clip. After physically killing an Egyptian, Moses then \u2018kills the Egyptian\u2019 inside of him. At the very end of the clip, he rips off the trappings of royalty and buries them in the sand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yes, the clip ignores his confrontation with the two Israelites and the fact that the text outright says that Pharaoh wished to kill Moses. But, this interpretation of burying his past in the sand is an extremely powerful metaphor. Moses did grow up as a member of the royal household. By running away, he had to bury that part of him in the past. The Prince of Egypt offers that the Egyptian he buried was the Egyptian inside of him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Vitality is the word that comes to mind to describe this portion. Israelites in Egypt are breeding and multiplying wildly having multiple births, litters of offspring at the same time, just like animals. In fact, the six verbs used to describe the ways the Israelites are reproducing and are \u201cfertile and prolific, they multiplied and increased, greatly, greatly\u201d suggest to medieval commentator Rashi that six offspring were birthed with each pregnancy.\u00a0 Commentator Nahum Sarna likens this population expansion to that at the creation in Genesis 1:28 and after the flood in Genesis 9:1.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

This vital force is perceived as a threat by the ruling Pharaoh and he decides that the way to combat it is to afflict the Israelites, specifically by commanding the midwives who serve the Hebrews to kill male offspring (Exodus 1: 16)\u00a0 The text leaves the ethnic identity of the midwives unclear, allowing us to see them either as ethnic Egyptians\u00a0 who work in Israelite neighborhoods or actual Israelite women, though later rabbinic interpretations assume that they are in fact Moses\u2019 mother Yocheved and sister Miriam.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

What makes these midwives so filled with life that they are able to bring other lives into being is their understanding of who should give them orders.\u00a0 They don\u2019t listen to Pharaoh, knowing it is wrong to kill an innocent baby.\u00a0 They posit a world with a higher morality, one that comes from God, for the \u201cmidwives fearing God, did not do as the king of Egypt had told them and they let the boys live.\u201d(Exodus 1:17)\u00a0\u00a0 The ability of the midwives to resist evil comes from their knowledge that there is a better order, a way to live informed by hope and compassion. For them, this understanding comes from their fear of God; the ambiguity in the text that these midwives might be either Egyptian or Israelite is significant since this is an understanding available to all humanity.<\/em>\u00a0 These two women model a way to resist evil that is both simple and powerful.<\/p>\r\n

When an Israelite male baby does live, five women collude to save him: two midwives, mother, sister and daughter of the Pharaoh.\u00a0 That these women are collaborating across \u201cethnic, class and religious lines\u201d as Bible scholar Susan Niditch writes in The Torah: A Women\u2019s Commentary<\/a> is extraordinary.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Moses\/Moshe is named\u00a0 because the daughter of Pharoah states, \u201cI drew him out of the water.\u201d(Exodus 2:10). Yet the Midrash Hagadol, as cited by Yair Zakovitch and Avigdor Shinan in their From Gods to God<\/a>, says that \u201che should have been called Mashui<\/em>, [one who] was drawn from the water,\u2019 but she named him Mosheh, <\/em>saying \u2018He drew himself[out of the water],\u2019 meaning that his own virtue caused him to be saved.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\r\n

The commands of an irrational ruler were defeated by the midwives who had the courage to defy him, which led to the possibility that a future leader would live.\u00a0 Moshe was able to draw others out of Egypt, as Isaiah 63:11-13 suggests, because God is behind him.\u00a0 However it is the belief of five women in the possibility of a better world than the current order expressed by their belief in God that sets redemption into motion and gives vitality.\u00a0<\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Parashat Shemot 5779","tile_main_caption":"Vitality And Its Causes","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Five women begin the process of redemption","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":false,"chapter_main_number":false,"date":false,"wall_id":"1024"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"368","name":"Parasha","old_id":"768"}]},{"order":5,"id":"40772","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"2","name":"Bible on The Bench: The Dual Identity of Moses ","post_title":"Bible on The Bench: The Dual Identity of Moses","slug":"bible-on-the-bench-the-dual-identity-of-moses","old_id":"40772","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":38102,"post_title":"929-English","slug":"929-english","old_id":"38102","first_name":"","last_name":"929-English","description":"","short_description":"","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":38333,"alt":"","title":"\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","width":1513,"height":860,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-300x171.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":171,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-768x437.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":437,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1024x582.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":582,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","1536x1536-width":1513,"1536x1536-height":860,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","2048x2048-width":1513,"2048x2048-height":860,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1200x682.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":682,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-739x420.png","home_baner-width":739,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"52","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"with Adam Mintz and Shira Hecht-Koller","post_main_content_content":"

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The Exodus from Egypt begins with the deeply-felt cry of the heart..The children of Israel, suffering harsh treatment, cried out. \"They sighed from their bondage, and they cried, and their wails rose up to God\" (Ex. 2:23<\/a>). God took note of their cry,and remembered the covenant with their ancestors. This is the first step in the journey toward freedom which we retell each year at Pesach: a story so core to who we are that we allude to it each week in the Shabbat kiddush, and in our daily liturgy, too.<\/p>\r\n

The first step toward liberation wasn't Moses seeing the Burning Bush, or going before Pharaoh to demand his people's freedom: it was a krechtz<\/em>, a heartfelt cry. The Torah teaches that we cried out, and God remembered us and answered. One could quibble with the text: why does God need to be reminded? Wasn't God able to see our suffering before we cried out? But maybe the crying-out was important not so much because God needed to be reminded that God's children were in tight straits, but because we ourselves needed to cry out, to acknowledge our own constriction and our own grief.<\/p>\r\n

We've all heard the parable of the frog who jumped into a pot of cold water and acclimated as the water temperature rose, never realizing that the rising temperature spelled impending death. Apparently it isn't true in any scientific sense<\/a>, but there's spiritual truth in that grisly story. One can become accustomed to tight straits in many forms: to pain, and to suffering; to overwork; to being taken for granted or being mistreated. Like the frog in the story, we may not notice when our circumstances become so toxic that they're dangerous.<\/p>\r\n

Sometimes we tell ourselves that our ability to live with pain -- whether physical or emotional -- is a sign of strength. Sometimes we regret our painful circumstances, but don't see any way out of them, so we make a virtue of necessity and learn to live with them. That's a coping mechanism, and it can serve its purpose well. But the downside of that coping mechanism is that it habituates us to our own suffering. And when we're accustomed to our own pain, we don't cry out... a silence which can easily go hand-in-hand with losing faith in the possibility of anything better than where we are.<\/p>\r\n

The Torah teaches that when our ancestors cried out in pain, God's compassion was aroused and the process of the Exodus 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A Levite man and Levite woman wed
\r\nShe birthed two kids, and then after a while
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Pharaoh\u2019s daughter, bathing, saw the boy
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\r\nHis sister, who\u2019d been watching, said with joy:
\r\nI know someone to nurse him \u2013 it\u2019s win-win.<\/p>\r\n

The boy grew up and witnessed a bad fight:
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\r\nThis boy, named Moses, had to do what\u2019s right
\r\nTo Midian, he, a fugitive, then fled.<\/p>\r\n

Meanwhile the Hebrews moaned. \u2018Twas not in vain.
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[There] is a curious feature of the narrative of Moses\u2019 birth. We recall that he was placed in a basket and set afloat on the Nile where he was seen and subsequently adopted by Pharaoh\u2019s daughter. She gives him the name Moshe (Moses), saying, \u201cI have drawn him [meshitihu] from the water\u201d (Ex. 2:10). It takes a while before we realize that there is something strange about this sentence. It presupposes that Pharaoh\u2019s daughter spoke Hebrew. It also makes the impossible assumption that not only would she adopt a Hebrew child in direct contravention to her father\u2019s decree that every male child be killed, but would advertise the fact by giving him a Hebrew name. In short, the Hebrew etymology of the name is only half of the story.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses \u2013 in the form Mose, Mses or Messes \u2013 is in fact an Egyptian word. It figures in the names of several Pharaohs, including Thutmose, and most significantly Rameses himself. The word means \u201cchild.\u201d Understanding this we stand before one of the Torah\u2019s boldest and most revolutionary strokes. Years later, two men are to be involved in a monumental confrontation: Rameses and Moses. Their names tell us what is at stake. Rameses means \u201cchild of the sun god Ra.\u201d Rameses, as we have seen, saw himself as a god and erected a temple at Abu Simbel to that proposition. Moses was simply, anonymously, \u201ca child\u201d \u2013 with no more identification than that, exactly as there is no name given to his parents when we first encounter them in the biblical text, other than the bare description, \u201cA man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman\u201d (Ex. 2:1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is not one man, a supreme ruler, who is in the image of God, but every man, woman and child on the face of the earth. It is not one infant who is a child of God but all infants: \u201cMy child, My firstborn, Israel,\u201d as God tells Moses to tell Pharaoh on their first meeting (Ex.4:22). The greatest ruler, if he holds himself to be a god, stands lower in the true order of things than any child who serves God rather than making God serve him. Moses means \u201ca mere child.\u201d Nothing could be more skewed than the various commentators, most famously Otto Rank and Sigmund Freud, who read the story of the childhood of Moses as a variant on the \u201cbirth-of-the-hero myth\u201d to be found in the ancient world in endless versions, among them the stories about Sargon, Oedipus, Paris and many others. What they failed to see is that the story of the birth of Moses is a polemic against such myth: an anti-myth, a sharp, stinging rejection of the idea that every hero is really of noble blood, raised by commoners, but truly royal and destined by birth to conquer and rule. This is not the world of Israel: it is the world Israel rejects.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Towards the end of the eighteenth century, the German writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe wrote a short novel about the maturation and education of a young man making his way in the world and searching for meaning and vocation. Wilhelm Meister\u2019s Apprenticeship <\/em>(1795) was an early work by the great master, but it would have significant influence on generations of writers. This influence would be most acutely felt in the genre of the bildungsroman,<\/em> the coming of age narrative. Leaving home, moving through institutions, seeking a place in society; these all became crucial to how we think about novels and what they, and we are about.<\/p>\r\n

Today\u2019s chapter is a bildungsroman<\/em> in miniature, a capsuled biography. Moses is found floating, with eyes peeking out in concern and hands extending to grasp the river-riding infant. Like any narrative, this one feels immersive because of its exceptional editing. The child who was helpless becomes the prince whose identity lies elsewhere, groans muffled by damask and glittering gold. A stroll out of the palace reveals the glory of Egypt rests on the bricks of brutality just as much as the munificence of the Nile. This encounter engenders both character and plot; Moses discovers himself, only to find himself in the narrative he would come to define as both scribe and protagonist. In the resonant phrase of Wallace Stevens, there he \u201cfound himself more truly and more strange,\u201d a stranger in a strange land.<\/p>\r\n

Moses\u2019s bildungsroman<\/em> continues to resonate because it thoroughly partakes of the modern while also tracking on to the arc of the religious. It demands that we continually create ourselves, and that our story is soldered from this project of self-fashioning. At the same time, it charts this growth against an essential optimism. We aim to discover a grander authenticity that burns incandescently and consummates rather than consumes. Freedom is found, and a leader, and a people, are born.<\/p>\r\n

image; Goethe, age 38, painted by Angelica Kauffman 1787 \/ 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And Pharaoh\u2019s daughter said to her, take this child and nurse him for me\u2026 and the woman took the child and nursed him. And the child grew\u2026<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Exodus 2:9-10<\/p>\r\n

Come, little one, come
\r\ndrink my milk. I\u2019ll tell you how Abraham
\r\ncame down to Egypt, and returned to our Land.
\r\nHe took Isaac, his son, to Moriah.
\r\nHe built an altar to God. He offered up a ram.<\/p>\r\n

Enough jumping, little one, come \u2013
\r\nI\u2019ll tell you a tale how Isaac
\r\nplanned to give earth\u2019s blessings to Esau \u2013
\r\nwheat and wine and heaven\u2019s dew,
\r\nbut was tricked by Jacob\u2019s hairy hand.<\/p>\r\n

Hush, little one, come
\r\ndrink my milk. I\u2019ll tell you how Jacob
\r\ndrew water \u2013 with a lion\u2019s strength he rolled the well\u2019s stone,
\r\nhow he toiled in Haran, and how, from his sons,
\r\nlike almond blossom our tribes grew.<\/p>\r\n

Enough play, little one, come \u2013
\r\nI\u2019ll tell you a tale how Joseph
\r\nwas the sun for Jacob,
\r\nand when the boy was sold to a caravan
\r\nof merchants, his father was undone.<\/p>\r\n

You too, little one, like this righteous man
\r\nwho was forced to leave Israel\u2019s tents
\r\nand call Pharaoh\u2019s palace a home,
\r\nlike a flame ablaze in the dark,
\r\nwill be a beacon to God\u2019s plan.<\/p>\r\n

From Ruth Fogelman\u2019s book, Leaving the Garden<\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Two Loving Mothers-I","tile_main_caption":"Hebrew Mother: Jochebed\u2019s Song","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Hush little one, I\u2019ll tell you a story","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"2","chapter_main_number":"52","date":"20251110","wall_id":"52"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"362","name":"Poetry","old_id":"762"},{"term_id":"397","name":"Moses","old_id":"797"},{"term_id":"604","name":"Mothers","old_id":"1004"}]},{"order":11,"id":"40603","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Pharaoh\u2019s Daughter: Bitya\u2019s Song ","post_title":"Pharaoh\u2019s Daughter: Bitya\u2019s Song","slug":"pharaohs-daughter-bityas-song","old_id":"40603","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":35831,"post_title":"Ruth Fogelman","slug":"ruth-fogelman","old_id":"35831","first_name":"Ruth ","last_name":"Fogelman ","description":"Ruth Fogelman was born in England and has lived in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City for most of her life. She is the author of four books. Her poems, articles, short stories and photography have appeared in anthologies and various publications in Israel, USA and India, including Arc, Back to Joy: Little Reminders to Help Us Through Tough Times, The Deronda Review, Prosopisia, Poetica, and the International Literary Review. Ruth holds a Masters Degree from the Creative Writing Program of Bar Ilan University and leads the Pri Hadash Women\u2019s Writing Workshop in Jerusalem. \r\nShe is a member of the Israel Association of Writers in English\r\nVisit her website at http:\/\/jerusalemlives.weebly.com\r\n","short_description":"Ruth Fogelman is a poet, and lives in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City. ","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":35832,"alt":"","title":"Ruth Fogelman","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ruth-Fogelman-.jpg","width":969,"height":973,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ruth-Fogelman--150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ruth-Fogelman--300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ruth-Fogelman--768x771.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":771,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ruth-Fogelman-.jpg","large-width":969,"large-height":973,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ruth-Fogelman-.jpg","1536x1536-width":969,"1536x1536-height":973,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ruth-Fogelman-.jpg","2048x2048-width":969,"2048x2048-height":973,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ruth-Fogelman-.jpg","post_full_size-width":969,"post_full_size-height":973,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ruth-Fogelman--418x420.jpg","home_baner-width":418,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"52","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"O God of the Hebrews \/ Open my heart to this child of the slaves \u2013","post_main_content_content":"

When I was a child, I ran to my father
\r\nHoping he would catch me, swing me in the air \u2013
\r\nBut he never stretched out his arms to me
\r\nFor his arms are the arms of a Sphinx.<\/p>\r\n

When I was a child, I asked my father
\r\nWhy the sun and moon do not fall to earth \u2013
\r\nBut he never answered, never smiled at me
\r\nFor his mouth is the mouth of a Sphinx.<\/p>\r\n

When I was a child, I wanted to tell my father
\r\nAbout the tadpoles I gathered from the water \u2013
\r\nBut he never listened to me
\r\nFor his ears are the ears of a Sphinx.<\/p>\r\n

When I was a child, I wanted to show my father
\r\nThe black beetle I saved from fire \u2013
\r\nBut he never looked, never looked into my eyes
\r\nFor his eyes are the eyes of a Sphinx.<\/p>\r\n

O God of the Hebrews,
\r\nOpen my heart to this child of the slaves \u2013
\r\nTo cradle him in my arms,
\r\nStroke his fingers with my lips,
\r\nListen to his songs
\r\nAnd meet his gaze.<\/p>\r\n

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In any biblical story, names are a critical source of information, context, and direction. Yet, confusingly, this chapter, which details the lifetime of Moses from his birth through the birth of his first son, ignores the names of any character until Moses himself is named. His parents, Yocheved and Amram, his sister Miriam, and even his adopted mother Bityah, the daughter of Pharaoh, all have names, yet here in our chapter their names are all ignored. The fact that so many seemingly important names are left out is further highlighted by the fact that in a chapter where so many new personalities are introduced, only two names are given explanation and meaning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The first is Moses himself, whose name is explained as meaning \u201cdrawn out of the water.\u201d The second is Moses\u2019 son, Gershom, whose name tells the reader Moses\u2019s feelings about his experience in Midian: \u201cI have been a stranger in a strange land.\u201d Not only do these names tell us about Moses\u2019s personal history and emotional state, they also show us the depth of connection between Moses and the Israelites. Just as Moses was literally drawn from the water and miraculously saved, so too will Israel be metaphorically drawn from the waters of the Reed Sea, and constantly saved from danger by God. Just as Moses had an experience of deep otherness and disconnection in a strange place, so too did the Israelites in their time in Egypt and their experiences of wandering.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Crucially, these two experiences of being saved and being wholly other have continued to echo throughout Jewish history. Our people has gone through periods of both salvation and isolation, and often we argue about which one we\u2019re in at the current moment. 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\"And the Lord saw the children of Israel, and the Lord knew.\"<\/p>\r\n

This final verse of chapter 2 confronts us with a number of problems. Firstly, the verse is cryptic and entirely superfluous. The Torah could have finished the chapter with God's hearing Israel's cries and remembering his promise. What is added by God's seeing and knowing, which is absent any object to explain it. What does God see? What does God know? And secondly- why has God waited to spring into action until now? Governmental orders to slaughter Jewish babies wasn't enough suffering to justify engagement?<\/p>\r\n

The first question begins to answer the second when we notice the centrality of the motif of sight in the chapter. Before God sees Israel's suffering, Moses sees it. In an act of solidarity that is difficult to grasp, the prince of Egypt identifies with the plight of the slaves, and intervenes on their behalf.<\/p>\r\n

But that Moses can see is really no surprise. Moses lives thanks only to the ability of two women to see against all odds.<\/p>\r\n

The first instance of the root 'ra'ah' <\/em>in the chapter is Moses' mother, for whose seeing the Torah borrows the language of creation, ki tov<\/em>, it was good. Amidst total despair, she sees a new light created in the world, and hope is born. But this fragile hope would not survive were it not for the pivotal actions of the story's most surprising character. Pharaoh's daughter heroic ability to see beyond her bubble, to fully see and hear the cry of a child of the enslaved Hebrews, anticipates and enables God's seeing and hearing.<\/p>\r\n

Only when we see, can God see and know that if He has partners on the ground, then the time for redemption has come.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":84724,"alt":"","title":"ps63-eye seeing God","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"To Open God's Eyes","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Only when there are partners on the ground, can the redemption begin","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":84724,"alt":"","title":"ps63-eye seeing God","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps63-eye-seeing-God-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"2","chapter_main_number":"52","date":"20251110","wall_id":"52"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"384","name":"God","old_id":"784"},{"term_id":"397","name":"Moses","old_id":"797"},{"term_id":"403","name":"Redemption","old_id":"803"}]},{"order":16,"id":"40790","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"2","name":"Moses Killing the Egyptian in Art ","post_title":"Moses Killing the Egyptian in Art","slug":"moses-killing-the-egyptian-in-art","old_id":"40790","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":37927,"post_title":"Adapted from ALHATORAH.ORG","slug":"alhatorah-org","old_id":"37927","first_name":"Adapted from","last_name":"ALHATORAH.ORG","description":"ALHATORAH.ORG is a one-stop Tanakh study resource, providing the texts, tools, techniques, and technology to help scholars, educators, and laypersons make Torah come alive in the home, classroom, and synagogue. 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The story of Moses' killing of the Egyptian in Exodus 2:11-12 serves to introduce the reader to the adult Moses, and helps shape one's initial perceptions of the leader. Thus, commentators -- \u00a0artists amongst them -- have much to say about the incident, questioning Moses\u2019 motivation, justification, and the details of the story itself. The contrast between the two artworks displayed here, the image from Arthur Szyk's <\/span>Haggadah<\/em> <\/span>(1932-1938) and the engraving from Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's <\/span>Picture Bible<\/span><\/em> (1851-1860) serves to highlight many of the issues and ambiguities of the narrative.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Szyk chooses to dress Moses in garb similar to the Egyptian whom he is striking. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Schnorr, in contrast, sets Moses apart both from the Hebrew slaves and from the taskmaster, adorning him with a full cloak and thus marking him as higher-class. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

These different portrayals make one question both how Moses viewed himself and how he was perceived by others at this stage of the narrative. Did Moses identify as Egyptian or Jew? Were his actions motivated by a feeling of brotherhood or just a strong sense of justice? Did anyone else know he was Israelite or had he been fully integrated into the royal family?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Adapted from: ALHATORAH.ORG<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For fuller analysis, see: <\/span>http:\/\/alhatorah.org\/Moshe_Killing_the_Egyptian_in_Art<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cHe (Moses) turned this way and that, seeing no one about, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A number of medieval commentators explain that Moses, in his prophetic wisdom, saw that no \u05d0\u05d9\u05e9, no person of significance, or import would ever stem in the future from the Egyptian before him. This interpretation is concluded from the word choice of \u05d0\u05d9\u05e9, person.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Makes sense. Until you re-read the previous verse.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cSome time after that when Moses had grown up, he went out to his kinfolk and witnessed their labors. He saw an Egyptian [person] beating a Hebrew [person], one of his kinsmen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Wait a minute. There was another player in this story who is characterized with the same descriptor \u05d0\u05d9\u05e9, person. It is quite a stretch then to claim that the Egyptian was not a person, given that the same exact language describes him as that of Moses\u2019 kinsmen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps, with the enormous caveat that I am not condoning nor promulgating punishment without trial, Moses simply saw that nobody was going to do anything. Here was an Egyptian man powerfully beating a Jewish man. It would seem odd that this was happening in complete isolation. Moses looked around to see if anyone was ready to save the Jewish slave\u2019s life. Not was there anyone of significance or importance but was there someone, anyone, willing to DO something of importance, that is, of saving someone\u2019s life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The manner in which this story plays out makes sense given what we know about Moses. He doesn\u2019t want to be a leader. He declines his position multiple times directly to God\u2019s face. Moses looks desperately around for someone to do the right thing. To save this helpless slave. When he realizes that if he does not exercise leadership, nobody will, he moves forward with this damning act which leads to his exile.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are two important outcomes here. First, there is a message of humility. Being aware that we should scan the crowd to determine if, when, and most importantly, who is available to step up to the plate. It is only in the absence of other candidates, coupled with the heightened element of danger and risk, that Moses moves forward as he does. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Second, the Egyptian task master is described as a person of significance. Moses buries him, even after he ended up killing him in his attempt to intervene. 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\u201cWhen she [Yocheved, Moses\u2019 mother] could no longer hide him, she took an ark made of papyrus for him, and lined it with clay and pitch; she placed the child inside and put it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.\u201d (Exodus 2:3)<\/p>\r\n

Yocheved:
\r\nLullaby,
\r\nHush, don\u2019t cry,
\r\nThe reeds and water will shelter you;
\r\nLullaby,
\r\nHush, don\u2019t cry,
\r\nMy son, my
\r\nLittle goat that Abba<\/em> bought for two pennies.
\r\nNo cat will scratch you,
\r\nNo dog will bite you,
\r\nNo stick will beat you.
\r\nThe reeds and water will guard you,
\r\nI swear.<\/p>\r\n

My son, may you grow to be a scholar,
\r\nThe letters of the Torah \u2014
\r\nThe raisons and almonds you\u2019ll eat;
\r\nIts verses \u2014 your milk,
\r\nIts words \u2014 your honey.
\r\nLullaby,
\r\nHush, don\u2019t cry,
\r\nMy son, my yingele<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n

How can I hide you?
\r\nHow can I hold you?<\/p>\r\n

The reeds and water have sworn
\r\nTo watch over and guide you
\r\nTo a haven.<\/p>\r\n

Pharaoh\u2019s daughter:<\/em>
\r\nLullaby,<\/em>
\r\nHush, don\u2019t cry.<\/em>
\r\nThe reeds and water have sheltered you and brought you to me,<\/em>
\r\nLittle one.<\/em>
\r\nNo fire will burn you,<\/em>
\r\nNo ox will gore you,<\/em>
\r\nNo butcher, no angel of death will snatch you,<\/em>
\r\nBy the reeds and water I swear.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Little one,<\/em>
\r\nMy only one,<\/em>
\r\nMay you grow to learn wisdom,<\/em>
\r\nTo understand<\/em>
\r\nWhy the reeds whisper God\u2019s praises as they bend in prayer,<\/em>
\r\nWhy the water purifies them with God\u2019s grace,<\/em>
\r\nWhy He has given you<\/em>
\r\nTo me.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Lullaby,<\/em>
\r\nHush, don\u2019t cry.<\/em>
\r\nMay I hold you?<\/em>
\r\nMay I have you?<\/em>
\r\nMy little one,<\/em>
\r\nMy little son,<\/em>
\r\nBy the reeds and water I swear<\/em>
\r\nTo watch over and guide you<\/em>
\r\nTo the 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Ex 2:2, 3 - The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw how beautiful he was, she hid him \"vatitzpenehu<\/em>\" for three months. When she could hide him \"hitzpino<\/em>\" no longer\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

2:12 - He turned this way and that and, seeing no one about, he struck down the Egyptian \u00a0and hid him \"vayitmenehu<\/em>\" in the sand.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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There seems to be a whole lot of hiding going on in this chapter. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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, 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 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>\r\n

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>\r\n

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 - 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 (matmena<\/em>). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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. 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In the first part of the chapter - a baby is rescued!<\/p>\r\n

Who is this baby? When you read the chapter you must wait patiently until Verse 10 to find out that the baby is Moses. Until then he's a Hebrew infant born to anonymous parents from the tribe of Levi. His mother does everything she can to keep him alive despite the fiendish decree \"Cast every male infant into the Nile\" (1:22). She hides him as long as she can, and when it's no longer possible she places him in a basket among the reeds. His sister, too, joins the effort to save the infant and she stands at a distance, watching over him.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The third woman in the story is Pharaoh's daughter who happens upon the place and reacts unexpectedly to the sight of the \"Hebrew child\" - \"and she had pity on him.\" Bravely and cleverly the baby's sister arranges for the baby's own mother to nurse him. \"And the boy grew and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son and she called him Moses, saying: For I drew him from the water\" (2:10).<\/p>\r\n

In the second part of the chapter Moses (the baby from the first part) intervenes in three incidents and also rescues<\/strong> (when possible).<\/p>\r\n

Moses grows up and goes out to see his brethren and immediately demonstrates a highly developed sense of justice:<\/p>\r\n

On the first day he reacts with zero tolerance to violence when he sees \"an Egyptian man beating a Hebrew man, one of his brethren\" (2:11). The Egyptian is immediately removed from the stage of history.<\/p>\r\n

On the second day he intervenes in a quarrel between two Hebrews and rebukes the wicked one: \"Why are you beating your brother?\" (2:13). The wicked one's reaction teaches Moses that \"The thing is known\" - the fact that he killed the Egyptian the night before - and Moses runs for his life to Midian.<\/p>\r\n

In Midian he comes to the rescue of seven girls whom shepherds have chased away from the troughs \"and Moses rose up and rescued them and watered their flocks\" (2:17).<\/p>\r\n

Moses stays in Midian, marries one of the girls he rescued (Zipporah) and even has a son (Gershom).<\/p>\r\n

Meanwhile, back in Egypt... The change has begun: the Israelites cry out - \"And their cry reached God\" (2:13) \"And God heard them... and God remembered His covenant... and God saw the Israelites and He knew\" (2:23-24).<\/p>\r\n

In the next chapter - this memory begins to take form as a plan for rescue.<\/p>\r\n

Points to Ponder:<\/p>\r\n

1. Women who rescue<\/strong>. Feminine power, which already appeared in the previous chapter in the form of the courageous midwives, continues to dominate the story of rescue. In this chapter (again?) it crosses national lines, involving the Hebrew mother and sister and Pharaoh's daughter (and maybe her handmaidens too) who disobey Pharaoh's royal decree (like the midwives in Chapter 1).<\/p>\r\n

2. Moses<\/strong>. Moses, who is to grow up to be the rescuer, gets his name from his own personal rescue by Pharaoh's daughter - \"For I drew him from the water\" (2:10).<\/p>\r\n

3. Hebrew identity<\/strong>. As an infant, Moses wasn't raised in Pharaoh's palace. He was raised by the Hebrew nursemaid (you know that she's his mother) and only later is he adopted by Pharaoh's daughter - \"And the boy grew and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son\" (2:10). Maybe this is why he knows who his brothers are when he grows up and leaves the palace.<\/p>\r\n

4. Buildup<\/strong>. Moses' involvement in the quarrels around him are built up gradually, showing us his characteristic sense of justice. He intervenes not only when the Egyptian harms the Hebrew but when two Hebrews quarrel and the wicked one harms his brother, and even when foreign shepherds harm foreign women.<\/p>\r\n

5. Leadership<\/strong>. Moses doesn't know it yet, but you do, that he will be the one who takes the Israelites out of Egypt. This chapter shows us where Moses came from and which qualities he brings to the mission of leadership which will be offered him in the next chapter.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"The Daily Summary","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder: Exodus 2","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"2","chapter_main_number":"52","date":"20251110","wall_id":"52"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"home_posts":false,"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/40552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}