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Chapter 3 begins the dialogue between Moses and God about returning to Egypt to save the Israelites. One day while grazing sheep, Moses notices a bush burning, yet the bush is not consumed. The lowly bush symbolizes the Israelites lowly state. The Egyptian attempt to burn them out was unsuccessful because God protects them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Despite this miraculous metaphor, Moses is skeptical. If he returns to Egypt to take the Israelites out, they will not believe him. He asks God what name he should tell them. \u201cWhen I come to the Israelites and say to them, \u2018The God of your fathers\u2019 [house] has sent me to you,\u2019 and they ask me, \u2018What is [God\u2019s] name?\u2019 What shall I say to them?\/ And God said to Moses, \u201cEhyeh-Asher-Ehyeh<\/em>,\u201d continuing, \u201cThus shall you say to the Israelites, \u2018Ehyeh<\/em><\/span> sent me to you.\u2019\u201d (verse 13-14).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is a very strange response from God. First of all, God has never been introduced as \u201cehyeh<\/em>\u201d before. A more apt name for God to reveal would have been El-Shaddai. That name was well-known to the forefathers, and was the name that God had used before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Second, Moses does not seem to use this name later when he speaks to the Israelites. Third, later in chapter 6, God reintroduces himself to Moses as \u201cYud-Hey-Vav-Hey<\/em>,\u201d the Tetragrammaton.\u00a0 It is that name that the Israelites do not believe. The connection to chapter 6 leads some commentators to explain that Ehyeh<\/em> is a different version of the Tetragrammaton because it has similar letters. However, that does not explain why God would use this unique version now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The answer may be that God is not answering Moses\u2019s question at all. The answer to that question arrives later, in chapter 6. Here, God is simply telling Moses not to worry. That God will be with him. The previous times the word Ehyeh<\/em> appears in Genesis all concern God telling the forefathers that he will protect them on their journey. To Isaac in 26:3: \u201cReside in this land, and I will be with you (Ehyeh<\/em>) and bless you,\u201d and to Jacob in 31:3: \u201cThen God said to Jacob, \u201cReturn to your ancestors\u2019 land\u2014where you were born\u2014and I will be with you (Ehyeh<\/em>).\u201d Moses claims he is afraid that the Israelites will not believe him. God deflects this question and gets the real concern of Moses, that he will be vulnerable in Egypt. 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One day, when Moses was tending his flock in the wilderness, having fled from Egypt and now living with his wife and sons in Midian, he came upon an unusual site: a lone bush among the desert scruff, ablaze. So he paused to look at it. And as he stood a while gazing upon the bush, he slowly began to realize that this was not just an unusual site (nothing else around it was burning); it was astonishing: a bush aflame but not being consumed. Riveted by this vision, he chose to draw closer, to get a better look.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And it was in that moment that God seemed to finally choose Moses.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps it was because of his intense curiosity, his ability to bear witness to the inexplicable and not shrink from its presence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps it was because Moses held off judgment, refusing to give in to superstitions or conjure up easy or fantastical explanations but rather chose to be present to the moment of awe and mystery.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Or perhaps it was because this time, Moses chose not to run away from power and danger but toward it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Whatever it was, God chose Moses and called his name. \u201cMoses, Moses.\u201d And Moses answered, as did Abraham and Jacob before him and Samuel after him: \u201cHineni, here I am.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A stunning response. \u201cHineni\u201d is a pure, astonished, unguarded affirmation given before all the facts are known. It is a spontaneous, unequivocal commitment promising: \u201cI am <\/span>here<\/b>\u201d, where and as you found me, fully attentive, focused, all in. And \u00a0even more, \u201c<\/span>I <\/b>am here\u201d- all of me, with all that I am and all that I can be.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cHineni\u201d is a response of sacred and undiluted presence, a response in which the self sheds all reservations, which expands the boundaries of self, indicating a readiness to receive and respond to whatever experience is about to unfold. It is brave and humble.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is the kind of response we offer only a few times in our lives. When we promise ourselves to the one we love not knowing what the future might bring; when we gaze into a newborn\u2019s eyes and promise we will never let them down. When we promise ourselves \u2013 as we enter a new era of our lives - to be all that we can be.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is no doubt the kind of response God was hoping for. 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[When Moses] encounters God at the burning bush, God summons him to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, but Moses is reluctant. Who am I, he asks, to be worthy of such a task? God reassures him, and then Moses asks, Who are you? When the Israelites ask, who has sent you, what shall I say? God replies in a cryptic three word phrase, <\/span>Ehyeh asher ehyeh<\/span><\/em> (Ex. 3: 14).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is fascinating to see how Christian Bibles translate this clause. Here are some recent examples:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I am who I am.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I am what I am.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I am that I am.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I am \u2013 that is who I am.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These are all mistranslations, and the error is there from the beginning. In Greek, \u00a0<\/span>Ehyeh asher ehyeh<\/span><\/i> became <\/span>ego eimi ho on<\/span><\/i>, and in Latin, <\/span>ego sum qui sum<\/span><\/i>: 'I am he who is.' To early and medieval Christians alike, this was God's way of describing himself as 'Being-itself, timeless, immutable, incorporeal, understood as the subsisting act of all existing.' The mistake of all these translations is obvious to the merest beginner in Hebrew. The phrase means, 'I will be what I will be.' The verb <\/span>does not use the present tense<\/span><\/i>\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God does <\/span>not<\/span><\/i> describe himself as the non-Jewish translations would have it. 'I am that I am' is a translation that owes everything to the philosophical tradition of ancient Greece, and nothing to the thought of ancient Israel. The God of pure being, first cause, prime mover, necessary existence, is the god of the philosophers, not the God of the prophets.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What then is the meaning of 'I will be what I will be'? What this means is that God cannot be predicted or controlled. He cannot be confined to categories or known in advance. He is telling Moses, 'You cannot know how I will appear <\/span>until<\/span><\/i> I appear; how I will act <\/span>until<\/span><\/i> I act. My mercy, my compassion, my strategic interventions into history, cannot be controlled or foretold. I will be what, when and how I choose to be. I am the God of the radically unknowable future, the God of surprises. You will know me when you see me, but not before.'<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To be sure, in one sense, the future is connected to the past. God keeps his promises. That is an essential element of Jewish faith. But this very fact reveals the difference between <\/span>predictability<\/span><\/i> on the one hand, and <\/span>faithfulness<\/span><\/i> on the other. Objects fall, gas expands, particles combine: these things are predictable. But people freely honour obligations they have undertaken because they are faithful. That is the difference God never fails to teach Moses and the prophets. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

God's name tells us that he is not an entity knowable by philosophy or science, deducible from the past. God awaits us in the unknown and unknowable future. That is the first stage of the argument: <\/span>the God of Israel is the God of the future tense.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

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The three artworks displayed here, the image from the Sarajevo Haggadah by an unknown artist, (c. 1350), Eugene Pluchart's <\/span>God Appears to Moses in Burning Bush<\/span><\/i> (1848), and Domenico Feti's <\/span>Moses Before the Burning Bush<\/span><\/i> (1613), all portray the same Biblical scene, God's revelation to Moses at the burning bush in Exodus 3. Each work imagines Moses\u2019 appearance, character, and response to revelation differently.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The three artists' depictions of the bush itself vary greatly:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In the Sarajevo Haggadah the bush looks almost like a tree.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Feti's bush looks like a mere stick with only a few leaves. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Both images stand in contrast to Pluchart's lush greenery, with pinkish rose-like fire emanating from it. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Which is truer to the Biblical text? In truth, the identity of the bush has been debated by many and is ambiguous, allowing for multiple possibilities. Often choices made in depicting the burning bush illuminate the symbolism an interpreter is imparting to the vision. Is the bush lowly to represent the lowly status of the Children of Israel or God's humility in appearing to Moshe? Or is it a rose-bush full of thorns, symbolic of Israel surrounded by her enemies?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

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Moses, now a shepherd, trailed his flock<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Which led him to a bush. \u2018Twas all ablaze<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u201cI\u2019m God! Take off your shoes,\u201d he heard. A shock!<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Poor Moses hid his face. For he was fazed. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

God said: I know the Hebrews have it rough<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I\u2019ve come to save them. You must set them free<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Said Moses, \u201cWon\u2019t the Hebrews call Your bluff?\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Said God: Tell them: I\u2019ll be what I shall be. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

God added: Get the elders on your side<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And tell them this: Your God will show His might<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He\u2019ll take you from this land that\u2019s not so wide<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And all who now oppress, your God will smite. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Your God will force the king to set you free \u2013<\/span>
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Shemot, the first parasha in the Book of Exodus, introduces the story of the Israelite nation as slaves, and God's calling of Moses to be their liberator. Avner Moriah\u2019s painting visualizes God revealing Himself to Moses and telling him that he is destined to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. How does the artist portray this awesome event? What in the picture helps us understand why Moses was destined for such a crucial task?<\/p>\r\n

In the center of the painting we see Moses holding a small white kid with three more goats on the ground to his left, a scene that reflects the well-developed tradition of the Good Shepherd in Western art. Legend has it that while Moses was tending the flock one kid escaped. He chased the kid, found him, and carried him in his arms, and so proved himself to be the ultimate shepherd, fit to lead God\u2019s people.<\/p>\r\n

We are told that as he approached Horeb, Moses saw a bush burning in the distance without being consumed by the fire: \u201cAn angel of the Lord appeared to him in the blazing fire out of the bush\u201d (Exod. 3: 2), but apparently Moses did not see the angel, for when he heard God calling to him he was overwhelmingly surprised. When God said, \u201cDo not come closer\u2026for the place on which you stand is holy ground\u201d (Exod. 3:5), Moses turned his back to the bush and hid his face \u201cbecause he was afraid to look at God\u201d (Exod. 3:6).<\/p>\r\n

The artist depicts the burning bush as being exuberantly alive and sets it against the mountain of a later revelation, suggesting that the sneh (bush) is actually Sinai, so what we have here is in effect a combined mini\/maxi revelation. There are smudges of red and splashes of yellow, which likely represent the fire, and a large mostly white area to the left behind the bush seems to signal divine intervention. The yellow and green leaves \u2013 some attached to the branches and others flying through the air \u2013 make it seem as though the bush is covering the entire \u201cmountain of God,\u201d the flying leaves also suggesting the shaking and trembling in the air at the sound of God\u2019s voice. Moses is not facing the burning bush, but rather is turning away from it and hiding his face, a sign of his reluctance to take on this formidable challenge, his timidity at the dawning of his leadership, and his reverence, a distancing himself from direct exposure to the Divine Presence.<\/p>\r\n

Although Moses is careful not to look at God, he does speak to Him and asks His name, and God answers: \u201cEhyeh-asher ehyeh\u201d (\u201cI Am that I Am\u201d; Exod. 3:14). 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Are leaders born? Are leaders made? Do we want our leaders to be eager or reluctant? Both? Moses, perhaps the greatest <\/span>and <\/span><\/i>the most flawed leader of the People of Israel, seems to be both \u2013 at different times embodying different modes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Exodus 3 begins with the dramatic burning bush episode, where Moses is charged by God to serve as God\u2019s emissary and become the leader of the people of Israel, to dramatically usher them from slavery in Egypt to freedom and nationhood. What follows in the remainder of the chapter is a series of refusals and questions on the part of Moses, all of which highlight that Moses does not believe himself to be the right man for the job. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses ends his protests with a final, primal plea: \u201cPlease make someone else your agent!\u201d Moses only reluctantly agrees to go to Egypt to see if his Israelite brothers are still alive after God has armed him with a series of magical tricks and his brother Aaron who will serve as his mouthpiece.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Contrast this Moses to the Moses we met in Chapter 2: A man who acts <\/span>decisively <\/span>to combat injustice and protect the weak of society in three separate incidents: First he impulsively slays an Egyptian who is wronging an Israelite slave. Second, he intervenes to stop a violent quarrel between two Israelite slaves. His final act of leadership in Chapter 2 takes place on behalf of a group of Midianite women he has never before met, who are being bullied at a well by a group of men. The Moses of chapter 2 finds himself instinctively called to leadership and acts without hesitation, to be the clear embodiment of what many have called the \u201cnatural born leader.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Where has that Moses gone in Chapter 3?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What happened in the intervening years? Can this shift be attributed to Moses living a quiet life as a Shepherd, building a family and dwelling in new and unfamiliar environs outside of the palace in which he was raised? Was it that which accounts for Moses\u2019 transformation from a young, eager, impulsive leader into a more measured and cautious force, who understands the burdens, responsibilities and weight of leadership? The Bible tells us little about what happened in these intervening years and leaves this up to our own speculation <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Instead, what we clearly see in Chapter 3 is that God patiently seeks out Moses the reluctant leader. When choosing the person and the moment in which to lift up one person to lead God\u2019s people, it is not the Moses of Chapter 2, the brazen, impulsive and self-appointed leader, who seeks out opportunities for dramatic action. Instead, God waits. 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One of the more inspiring, recently established events in the White House was Barak Obama\u2019s Passover Seder. Unlike George W. Bush\u2019s institution of the White House Hanukah party, the presidential Passover Seder was not expressly, or even primarily, celebrated for the Jewish community. The annual retelling of the Exodus at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue spoke to the Obamas\u2019 African-American identity, who saw in it \u201ca tale that was carried from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement into today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Exodus tells the particular story of a particular people, yet its message has been meaningful to a great variety of peoples seeking freedom around the world, including those who do not claim any Israelite ancestry. In the United States, the Biblical Exodus is most immediately associated with African-Americans who found inspiration in its message of hope and liberty during the crush of slavery \u2013 perhaps even more than Jews recalled it during their times of persecution. The verses of many African American spirituals were taken from the Exodus story, most famously, \u201cGo Down, Moses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Like most spirituals, the precise origins of \u201cGo Down, Moses\u201d are lost to the steamy mists of the Southern plantations. The song did not have a specific composer in the conventional sense, but took shape communally. \u201cGo Down, Moses\u201d describes Egypt as depressed, echoing both God\u2019s assurance that \u201cI have <\/span>come down<\/span><\/em> to rescue the Israelites from the Egyptians and to <\/span>bring them up<\/span><\/em>, out of that land,\u201d and the geography of American slavery. Remarkably, the song\u2019s title-line takes aim at Moses, a privileged Israelite who escaped slavery and had to be convinced to go back down to Egypt to help his fellow Israelites (Exodus 3-4). It is not surprising that the song was used as code by abolitionists like Harriet Tubman seeking to free slaves, and that it was sung by Civil Rights activists who traveled down South to show solidarity with their African American brothers suffering in places like Alabama and Mississippi. \u201cGo Down, Moses\u201d reminds us of a particular, oft-forgotten message of the Exodus story \u2013 the need for the fortunate members of subjugated peoples to descend into the kin\u2019s misery, and lift them 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YHWH baited Moses, who was shepherding his father-in-law Jethro's flocks, with a fire that did not consume the combustion material, a dry, thorny bush. Once he was close enough, Elohim\/God calls out the big news to him: The God of Moses's forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, is en route to free the enslaved Israelites from Egypt, and return them to their chosen homeland.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses believes the revelation, but doubts he is capable of fulfilling the mission. As part of an argumentative conversation they have, Moses requests a name for God \u2013 after all, living in a culture rife with Gods and the powers they wield, it's important to know. And then, even though we already heard the name YHWH in this chapter, and Elohim, and the genealogical description (God of \u2026), here comes another: Eheyeh Asher Eheyeh, <\/span>I will be that which I will be<\/b>. Or perhaps in a form of present continuous: <\/span>I (always) am what I am. <\/b>Or any combination of those. A name that connotes infinite independence of this God from any definition, flexibility and free choice for God. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But what does this name have to do with the other three in the chapter?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A parable for the first three names: The prime minister was on the the phone, and she said: Jules, It is I, Alice, your Aunt, calling to wish you a happy Birthday.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We aren't confused: The name of the caller is Alice. Her role is Prime Minister, and her relation to Jules is Aunt. One character, different aspects.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Similarly, here we read: Elohim\/ God (role) is YHWH (name), \u00a0the God of Moses's forefathers (relation).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The fourth, new, name defines the <\/span>nature<\/span><\/em> of an unfettered God who acts freely in the world. This is the God that will now figure in their lives- God who may change, depending on God's will alone, and cannot be controlled. God even chooses a nickname: \"Say to them: Eheyeh sent me to you\" (vs. 14)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Many years have passed since Moses fled from Egypt, a fugitive from the law after killing an Egyptian taskmaster. He is married, has children and is quietly herding his father-in-law Jethro\u2019s sheep in the desert, and minding his own \u00a0business.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Then, with no apparent warning, he sees a bush that is burning unconsumed. He takes notice, stops and makes a conscious effort to observe and understand what he is seeing (Exodus 3:2-3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God has heard the cries of the Children of Israel and looked down. At the burning bush, God\u2019s gaze crosses that of Moses. Attention, concentration and concern for detail were the threshold requirements for the mission of freeing the Israelite slaves. God has a promise to fulfill: to free the people of Israel from Egypt and bring them to the land, but God needs human agents to work in this world. We don\u2019t know how many other candidates God tried to contact. We only know that Moses passed the test.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses is less sure, and hesitates. God gives him a pep-talk. God promises to support Moses in the task, reveals God\u2019s own name, and outlines how the campaign will progress.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The negotiations between God and Moses continue into the next chapter, but it is already evident that God values Moses specifically for his attentiveness. God surely has other tasks to be done in this world. 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\u201cHave you ever felt overwhelmingly alone? Put yourself back in that moment. Visualize it; what did you see, hear, feel. Sit in it for a couple seconds. Experience that sensation of loneliness come back over you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This was the advice I was given during my first week as a hospital chaplaincy intern. I felt inadequate and powerless as a chaplain, confronting the pain of patients whose problems I was unable to solve. \u201cWhen you were most alone\u201d, my supervisor asked me during this visualization, \u201cwhat did you most desire?\u201d \u201cThe reassuring sound of my parent\u2019s voice\u201d, I responded.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Yeshoshua ben Nechamia HaKohen teaches: \u201cWhen the Holy Blessed One revealed Himself to Moses, he (Moses) was a prophetic novice. The Holy Blessed One said, \u2018If I reveal Myself to him in a great voice I will frighten him, with a small voice I will sour him on prophecy.\u2019 What did He do? He revealed Himself to him with the voice of his father. Moses replied, \u2018Hineni, \"Here I am! What does father ask?\u2019 The Holy Blessed One said, \"I am not your father, rather I am the God of your father. I came to you in this manner so that you would not be afraid.\"\u201d (Midrash Rabba 3:1)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I am not your father, God acknowledges, but, \u201cI am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob\u201d (Ex. 3:6). As Moses ventures to the farthest reaches of the desert, he discovers that he was really searching for home all along. His father may no longer be living, but the God of his father lives on. 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Among the craggy rocks I blossomed.
\r\n<\/span>I sheltered the serpent, the lizard, the mongoose.
\r\n<\/span>I shaded the hyrax
\r\n<\/span>chattering through my leaves.
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Long before he was drawn from the river
\r\n<\/span>before the sea swallowed men whole
\r\n<\/span>before wanderers grumbled in their wavering faith
\r\n<\/span>I flourished.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I heard the sheep approaching and ignited.
\r\n<\/span>A black fire<\/span>[1]<\/span> surrounded me.
\r\n<\/span>God only spoke to Moses, first as his father<\/span>[2]<\/span>.
\r\n<\/span>Amram\u2019s voice flushed up my trunk
\r\n<\/span>through my branches
\r\n<\/span>my blossoms.
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why a bush? They ask.
\r\n<\/span>I have been compared
\r\n<\/span>to Egypt<\/span>[3]
\r\n<\/span>written off as cramped
\r\n<\/span>unextraordinary.
\r\n<\/span>And yet,
\r\n<\/span>the merit of the five fathers rests upon my leaves<\/span>[4]<\/span>.
\r\n<\/span>The angel Michael<\/span>[5]<\/span> breathed from within my trunk.
\r\n<\/span>I sprouted from Horeb<\/span>[6]
\r\n<\/span>from holy ground.
\r\n<\/span>I am Sinai.<\/span>[7]
\r\n<\/span>I am the years of Moses\u2019 life.<\/span>[8]
\r\n<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

A miracle!<\/span><\/i> They said,
\r\n<\/span>Unconsumed.
\r\n<\/span>A black fire had burned within me
\r\n<\/span>and long after this people and their exodus
\r\n<\/span>long after Moses was denied his Promised Land
\r\n<\/span>his thirty thousand angels ascended back to heaven,<\/span>[9]
\r\n<\/span>my branches my blossoms my leaves all remained.
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The commandment of God shook the ground as Moses bowed.
\r\n<\/span>And then they both left.
\r\n<\/span>I wonder if Moses screamed against the decision?
\r\n<\/span>Perhaps Moses was consumed by God.
\r\n<\/span>Perhaps God engulfed him in flames
\r\n<\/span>burying Moses\u2019 screams with the sound of His voice
\r\n<\/span>while Joshua bowed low to the ground hearing the voice of Nun, his father.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

image: Alan E \/ flickr (CC BY 2.0)<\/p>\r\n

Sources:<\/p>\r\n

[1]<\/span> From <\/span>The Legends of the Jews: The Burning Thorn-Bush<\/span>: The Celestial fire had three peculiar properties: it did not prevent the bush from producing blossoms, it did not consume the bush, and it was black in color.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[2]<\/span> From <\/span>The Legends of the Jews: The Ascension of Moses<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[3]<\/span> Rashi: Out of a bush<\/span> and not out of some lofty tree, as it is written in Psalm 91:15 \u201cI will be with him in distress\u201d meaning, while My people are enslaved, I too, am in cramped quarters.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[4]<\/span> From <\/span>The Legends of the Jews: The Burning Thorn-Bush<\/span>:The leaf of the thorn bush consists of five leaflets to indicate to Moses that God had resolved to redeem Israel only for the sake of the merits of five pious men: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Aaron, and Moses.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[5]<\/span> ibid.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[6]<\/span> Exodus 3:1<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[7]<\/span> Ibn Ezra: The name \u201cSinai\u201d derives from this word [Seneh] as well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[8]<\/span> The Hebrew letters for the word \u201cthe bush\u201d, \u201chaseneh\u201d, add up to Moses\u2019 life span of 120 years.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[9]<\/span> From <\/span>The Legends of the Jews: The Ascension of Moses<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":104147,"alt":"","title":"-625d4097249c9--625d4097249caex3-burning 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\u201cAnd Moses said, \u2018Let me turn aside and see this tremendous sight; why doesn\u2019t the bush burn?\u201d (Exodus 3:3)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the shadow of the burning bush, and in<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Its light, we gaze beyond the desert dunes,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Beyond the desecrated Temple ruins<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Where Temple priests had once atoned our sin.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In the bush\u2019s shadow, and its light, a thin<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Unbroken thread of grace is seen, which moons<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Had woven here on sunless afternoons<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To be a string for David\u2019s violin. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Behold, the bush of faith resists the flames<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Which burned the Temple-gates and scorch our mind,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Ignited in the night by brutish hands;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>For still moist leaves retain the sacred names<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Of God, and in the bush\u2019s shade we find<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A watered garden on the Temple\u2019s sands.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":104145,"alt":"","title":"-625d3b56c0e6a--625d3b56c0e6dex3-burning 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When Is A Name Not A Name?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

3:13,14 - Moses said to God, \u201cWhen I come to the Israelites and say to them, \u2018The God of your fathers has sent me to you,\u2019 and they ask me, \u2018What is His name?\u2019 what shall I say to them?\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And God said to Moses, \u201cEhyeh-Asher-Ehyeh<\/em>.\u201d He continued, \u201cThus shall you say to the Israelites, \u2018Ehyeh<\/em> sent me to you.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses throughout his life has a number of quite direct requests of God. Later on, he will ask to see God; here he just asks for a moniker. In answering, God it seems does not name Names, but rather offers a theological mystery.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our translation, the New JPS, following the Targum, treats this as a divine name, and therefore does not translate it. But it is a pretty straightforward Hebrew verb, a form of the root \u05d4-\u05d9-\u05d4, h-y-h, relating to being or existence. This is also the root of the most famous ancient Hebrew name of God, YHWH, or \u05d9-\u05d4-\u05d5-\u05d4.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As we saw <\/span>in an earlier post<\/span><\/a>, while not actually a word, these four letters are taken from instances of the verb \"to be.\" The words for \"he was\" \"he is\" and \"he will be\" are \u05d4\u05d9\u05d4, \u05d4\u05d5\u05d4, \u05d9\u05d4\u05d9\u05d4, <\/span>haya, hoveh, yihyeh<\/span><\/i>, thus making the Name a sort of permutation of these forms together, implying eternity, and the oft-used translation, the Eternal.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are also other abbreviations or variations, such as Yah, the source of Rastafarian \"Jah,\" and Yahu, both incorporated in first and last names: Isaiah and Jeremiah both end in <\/span>\u2013yahu<\/span><\/i> in Hebrew, and of course, the surname, Netanyahu.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This brings us to our verse. God tells Moses to go to the enslaved Israelites in Egypt and rouse them to freedom. Moses foresees them asking who sent him \u2013 \"when they ask me, 'What is His name?' what shall I tell them?\" \u2013 God answers: \"\u05d0\u05d4\u05d9\u05d4 \u05d0\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d0\u05d4\u05d9\u05d4, <\/span>ehyeh asher ehyeh<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> which indeed can be translated as \"I will be who\/what I will be\u201d or \u201cI am who\/what I am,\u201d or even, \"I am who I will be,\" this time implying unbounded becoming, the inability of a name to define an essence. This makes the answer a non-answer, in the sense, \"don't think that by finding out My name, you can control Me, or have special access to My nature.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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You Are The Leader\r\n\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"

Moses herds his father-in-law Jethro's flock in the desert. The Israelites, shepherd-less, groan under the yoke of slavery in Egypt. The time has come to act. To appoint a leader.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God reveals Himself to Moses gradually. As Moses herds the flock in the desert God attracts his attention with an unusual sight - a desert bush \"burns... but is not consumed\" (3:2). When Moses approaches for a better look at this wondrous sight, God calls him: \"Moses, Moses\" (3:4) and presents Himself and His plan: \"And He said: I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob... I have seen the poverty of My people in Egypt... and I will descend and rescue them from the hands of the Egyptians\" (3:5-8). Why does God say this to Moses, of all people? Because He wants to appoint him to carry out His plan: \"Now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and take My people the Israelites out of Egypt\" (3:10).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses refuses, both in this chapter and the next. Why?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. The task is too great - \"Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and take the Israelites out of Egypt?\" (3:11).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. He's afraid of the people's reaction - \"And when they ask me 'what is his name?' what shall I tell them?\"<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    Three more refusals await us in the next chapter, until Moses, willingly or unwillingly, accepts the mission.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

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    1. Remove your shoes<\/b>. That famous line is from here. Verse 5.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. A double mission<\/b>. Moses immediately realizes the double challenge the mission poses - convincing both Pharaoh and the Israelites.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    3. God's names<\/b>. The names and attributes by which God instructs Moses to introduce Him to the Israelites: \"I will be that I will be\" (3:14) and \"God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob\" (3:16).<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

      4. <\/span>The plan in brief<\/b>. Verses 17-22: Moses and the elders of Israel will stand before Pharaoh and ask him to grant the Israelites a temporary furlough so they can worship God in the desert. Pharaoh will refuse. God will strike. The Israelites will borrow silver and gold objects from the Egyptians so that, as in the prophetic statement to Abraham at the Covenant of the Pieces, \"And then they will leave with great wealth\" (Genesis 15:14).<\/span><\/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 3","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"","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":"3","chapter_main_number":"53","date":"20251111","wall_id":"53"},"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\/40553"}],"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=40553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}