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A crisis of confidence leads Moses to admit to God that he\u2019s worried the Jewish people won\u2019t believe him when he relates his encounter with God. How vulnerable Moses must have felt at that moment, at the crossroads of knowing the truth and not knowing how he\u2019d explain it to others. Was it only himself that Moses doubted though, or was he also expressing some doubt in the nation\u2019s ability to accept God?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God gave Moses three signs to use as tools for convincing the people of the veracity of God\u2019s wishes and promises. The first sign that God told Moses to employ was casting his staff to the ground to turn it into a snake, and then grasp it by the tail to return the snake to a staff. The second sign was the miraculous appearance and subsequent disappearance of the skin disease of <\/span>tzaraat<\/span><\/em> (sometimes defined as leprosy) from Moses\u2019 own hand. The 15<\/span>th<\/span> century commentator, Sforno, links both of these signs as one piece of evidence of God\u2019s control over life and death. In the first instance, God took a dead staff from Moses\u2019 hand and turned it into a live snake, and then back again into a dead staff. In the second sign, God effectively deadened Moses\u2019 hand and then returned it to life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If the first sign doesn\u2019t work to convince the people, and subsequently the second sign still doesn\u2019t do the job, says God, there is a third sign. You will take water from the river, says God to Moses, and pour it on dry land and it will turn to blood.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses is provided with these persuasive tools, but we are not told that Moses needed to use these signs to convince the nation of God\u2019s intent. If Moses lacked confidence in the people\u2019s ability to accept God, his lack of confidence was misplaced. It\u2019s true, the nation at first did not heed Moses\u2019 word, but not because they didn\u2019t have faith in God or Moses\u2019 leadership but, as we read in the next chapter (6:9), because they were simply too tired and beaten to have the energy for optimism. We do however (spoiler alert again) later see Moses using the first sign (staff into snake) and third sign (water into blood) to convince Pharaoh to free the Israelites. So, it seems Moses was right to question his persuasiveness, he was just mistaken about who he\u2019d need to persuade.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But what of the second sign? Our sages teach that the affliction of <\/span>tzaraat<\/span><\/em> is a punishment for the sin of slander, and in this second sign, perhaps God was letting Moses know that his lack of faith in the nation was slanderous. 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Moses does not lead a charmed life. Repeatedly, Moses escapes certain death thanks to risky, courageous moves by women who loved him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the dark time of Pharaoh\u2019s genocide of male Hebrew babies, Moses\u2019 mother, Yocheved, weaves a basket and sets her infant son afloat on the Nile, thwarting the death decree. The baby is watched from the reeds by Miriam, his older sister. Pharaoh\u2019s daughter comes to the Nile to bathe, spots the floating basket, and, curious, reaches out to draw it closer. Her heart is stirred by the beautiful baby, and, thinking the Nile god has sent her a gift, she resolves to raise the babe as her own, naming him \u201cMoshe.\u201d Miriam audaciously steps out of hiding and speaks to the princess, offering to find her a wet-nurse, bringing Yocheved to suckle her own child.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Years pass in a biblical blink. Moses, wanted for slaying an Egyptian taskmaster, flees Egypt. Safe in a nomadic encampment, he marries Zipporah, daughter of the local priest, shepherds their flocks for forty years, and examines his soul. God speaks to Moses from a Burning Bush, commanding him to return to Egypt and lead Israel out of bondage. \u201cGo back to Egypt! For all the men who sought to kill you are dead.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A reluctant Moses sets out for Egypt with his wife and two sons\u2014one a newborn\u2014stopping at a desert inn. We read four portentous words: <\/span>Va-yifgesheihu Hashem, va-yevakesh hamito<\/span><\/em>. <\/span>God encountered him and sought to kill him<\/span><\/em>. We are stunned. God instructed Moses to go, assuring his safety. Why would God now seek to kill him? How ironic, that while the <\/span>men<\/span><\/em> who hunted Moses are long dead, Moses now faces a God bent on killing him!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The <\/span>Midrash\u00a0<\/span>recreates the terrifying nighttime scene. Moses and Zipporah are stretched out on a pallet; their sons asleep nearby. Suddenly, Moses is gasping, suffocating in the tented room. Zipporah, sensing divine wrath\u2014the sons of God\u2019s messenger must be circumcised!\u2014grabs a flint shard from the rocky floor and circumcises their infant son by candlelight, throwing the tiny foreskin at Moses\u2019 feet, like an offering. \u201cYou are a bridegroom of blood to me! A bridegroom of blood for circumcisions!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

An angry God appeased, Moses is released from God\u2019s death-grip. 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4:18-20 Today, Moses asked my permission to return to his people. What could I say but, \"Go in peace\u201d? I will miss him. Moses is like a son to me and I think I am as a father to him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses has become remote, preparing his mind and soul as well as provisions for this journey. Zipporah is expecting another baby any day. Moses struggles with himself as I did years ago when I went away to become a priest.\u00a0 He must focus on his task, but he needs his family. I urged Moses to wait until after the baby is born, or to leave them here for now, but Moses is insistent on leaving now with Zipporah and Gershom. I understand. Still, I worry.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I hope Zipporah understands Moses' calling. She will have the baby on the journey. I hope Moses understands the danger of this traveling and that he will take care of her.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Go in peace, Moses, take care of yourself and your family and your people. I am here whenever you need me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

4:21-26 We received word that Zipporah, Gershom and the baby were waiting at an inn on the road, and Moses went on without them. They were not hurt - just confused and frightened. From the time they left Midian, Moses had been distant and preoccupied, even at the time of the birth. I was not at Zipporah's birth, but I left my wife at home with family and a midwife.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It happened very fast. Someone appeared and asked to kill him. Who? Zipporah asked. No answer. Moses was powerless to understand or act. Zipporah realized the baby had not yet been circumcised. Moses had told her that because they were on a journey, the circumcision should be delayed. He was wrong. Zipporah took the flint and circumcised the baby, touched his leg (I am not sure whose leg, but it doesn't matter) and said \"You are a bridegroom of blood to me.\"\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Then, everything was fine. I asked Zipporah what she meant by her comment and even she was not sure. Who was she talking to? She was not sure of that either. Months of unexpressed tension and frustration flooded out in her words. Perhaps she meant them for Moses, perhaps for God, because her new son may never know his father, and he will certainly never know the Moses Zipporah married a few short years ago. That Moses is gone forever.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses did not mean for this to happen. He cares deeply for his family, but his task occupies all of his energy. Zipporah is very understanding. It is a great honor, and very difficult, to be the wife of a leader sent by God. We both remember the times when I was preoccupied with my work.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If Moses does not succeed to free the people, he will die in the attempt. 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After Moses relents to God\u2019s request to travel to Egypt to confront Pharaoh, the text discusses a mysterious story. (verses 24-27).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This bizarre episode happens out of the blue and then the text returns to the main story as if it never happened. What exactly is going on here? Most of the commentators explain that Moses delayed in circumcising his son, Eleazer, most likely due to the treacherous journey to Egypt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The midrash explains that an angel appeared as a snake and began to swallow Moses. The snake stopped at the area of circumcision. Because Moses was incapacitated, Zipporah had to perform the circumcision. In a slightly different version, it is Eleazar who is almost swallowed (notice how the verse uses ambiguous pronouns, so it is unclear who the \u201che\u201d is). In this version, Moses is not with Zipporah and Eleazer. He has gone ahead to meet Aaron, and Zipporah is heading home with Eleazer. This version matches with the fact that later on Zipporah comes to meet the Israelites in the wilderness. In this version, Zipporah may be expressing her disgust with having been left alone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Neither version, however, seems to address why this is happening now. The answer to that may be in the previous verse:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, \u2018Thus says God: Israel is My first-born son. I have said to you, 'Let My son go, that he may worship Me,' yet you refuse to let him go. Now I will slay your first-born son\u2019 (verses 22-23).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Notice how this verse also uses pronouns. The incident with Eleazer may be a punishment for Moses tarrying. God wants <\/span>Moses<\/span><\/i> to go to Egypt to let God's first born go, but by delaying, Moses is delaying that outcome. As a punishment, God threatens to kill Moses\u2019s first-born son, just as He will kill Pharaoh\u2019s. Zipporah\u2019s disgust here is with Moses delaying. 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We owe a debt to cognitive behavioral therapy for reminding us of a classic element of Jewish faith, that when we change the way we think, we change the way we feel. And when we feel differently, we live differently. What we believe shapes what we become. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

At the heart of teshuva is the belief that we can change. We are not destined to be forever what we were. In the Torah we see Judah grow from an envious brother prepared to sell Joseph as a slave, to a man with the conscience and courage to offer himself as a slave so that his brother Benjamin can go free.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We see Moses grow from a man lacking the confidence to lead \u2013 \u201cWho am I?\u201d (Ex. 3:11), \u201cThey will not believe in me\u201d (Ex. 4:1) \u2013 to become the greatest leader of all time. The man who once stammered and said of himself, \u201cI am not a man of words\u201d (Ex. 4:10), becomes by the end of his life the most eloquent and visionary of all the prophets.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Moses pleaded: \u201cGod, give me a sign<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>So people know that I am not a fake.\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Said God: \u201cProof you were sent by the divine?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Throw down your rod.\u201d He did. Behold, a snake. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Then God said: \u201cNow I\u2019ll give you one more test<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>So everyone knows you were sent by Me.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Extend your hand and bring it to your breast.\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He took it out. \u2018Twas scaled with leprosy. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses, hesitant, said: \u201cListen God<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I\u2019m slow of speech and also slow of tongue.\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u201cLet Aaron do the talking; you just nod<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>He also is a hero, though unsung.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

That night, encamped, near-tragedy befell--<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Zipporah circumcised, and all was well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In this chapter, God prepared Moses for his confrontation with Pharaoh. At this point in time, we have no inkling that there will be numerous confrontations; for all Moses knows now\u2014he will succeed at first without having to try try again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Two items stand out: The first is the staff that Moses was instructed to take along. Since we have already been introduced to him as a shepherd, we can safely assume that the staff in question was his shepherd\u2019s crook, a long piece of wood curved at the top so it can be placed about the neck of a recalcitrant sheep to direct it to safety. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This staff, which he now turned into a snake, will also be featured the plagues of hail and locusts. The fact that he was instructed to bring it to bear when drawing water from the flint rock (Numbers 20:8 ff.) suggests that it was also in his raised hand at the splitting of the sea, the battle against Amalek, and may have accompanied him throughout the forty year sojourn in the wilderness. Aaron, too, has a staff (7:9 ff.) and it makes its comeback in the Korah incident (Numbers 17).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second noteworthy item is Aaron himself. When Moses balked at his mission, citing a difficulty with public speaking, God indicated that Aaron would do his talking. Verse 16 describes their relationship as \u201cHe [Aaron] will serve as your spokesman (<\/span>peh<\/span><\/i>, mouthpiece?) and you [Moses] will be his boss (<\/span>elohim<\/span><\/i>).\u201d Curiously, when this relationship is referenced in 7:1, there is a significant substitution: \u201cYou [Moses] will be a boss [<\/span>elohim<\/span><\/i>] to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet [<\/span>nevi\u2019ekha]<\/span><\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\r\nApplying the axiom that things equal to the same thing are equal to each other, we may conclude that the principal meaning of prophet is spokesman.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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According to midrashic tradition (Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer 48, Exodus Rabbah 5:13), there was a secret password that would be known by the one who was to redeem Israel from Egyptian enslavement. This verbal sign was handed down from Abraham to Isaac and then to Jacob, who passed it on to Joseph. On his deathbed in Egypt, in his final words, Joseph revealed this confidential watchword to his brothers: \u201cGod will surely redeem you\u201d (Genesis 50:24-25). Joseph\u2019s brother, Asher, handed on this sacred promise not to any of his sons but to his daughter Serah. And wisely too, for Serah, according to rabbinic tradition, survived into the generation of Moses. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

At the end of Exodus Chapter 4, when Moses and Aaron come to the Elders of Israel and perform miracles before them to prove that Moses had been sent by God to lead Israel out of Egyptian enslavement, the people immediately believed. But according to the midrashic expansion of this biblical passage, the Elders first went and consulted with Serah. She told them: \u201cSuch miracles are insubstantial!\u201d But then they told her: \u201cMoses also proclaimed to us what he says is the word of God, \u201cSurely I will redeem you\"! Whereupon, Serah immediately exclaimed: \u201cThis is indeed the very man who will redeem Israel from Egypt! For this is the secret password of redemption that I received from my father, Asher\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to the midrash, it was only when this previously secret cipher was revealed to the people of Israel that they believed that the time of their redemption had finally come. 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Who is worthy to lead the Jewish people? What leader deserves the faith of his people? These are the questions that weigh heavily on Moses's mind when he is \"offered\" the first position of national Jewish leadership in history.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although Moses didn't campaign, and wasn't voted in, the Torah's answer to this question, repeated in various forms over chapters 3 and 4, is deeply democratic. It is the absolute contrast to the Pharaonic model, reflected and supported by Joseph's policies in the days of famine, in which the leader is divinely chosen to be a sub-deity who owns the land and the people and can do with them as he sees fit. In the Jewish model, the leader is also divinely chosen, but he is chosen to serve the people. A leader is literally a civil servant, a slave to the people, and not the other way around.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This revolutionary conception of leadership is reflected in Moses's concern that the people will not accept him, but even more so, it is emphasized by rabbinic understandings of God's answer to this concern. The Torah records a number of miraculous signs that are meant to convince the people that Moses is God's messenger, but the Midrash understands that their message is primarily directed at Moses. If the leader serves the people, then the first condition of leadership is to have faith in the people you serve. God had told Moses that the people would listen to him, but Moses's doubt of this promise is punished not because it reflects a lack of faith in God, but because it reflects a lack of faith in the Jewish people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The blood is dripping off Zipporah\u2019s fingers, and Moses can\u2019t tear his eyes away.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

His first mother may have held him with such hands when she gave birth to him. He imagines them sometimes: chafed by servitude, stained with labor. He imagines them reaching down to her thighs and pulling him out, life gore and all.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

His second birth, the one he knows about, was different. His second mother\u2019s hands pulled him from the river\u2019s water. The hands remained unsoiled: there was no blood to mark his passage into life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cA bridegroom of blood,\u201d Zipporah spits at him, and finally, he doesn\u2019t need to imagine. He can finally see, truly see, the bloodied hands of a woman forming life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You saved us, he wants to tell her, but words fail him. As he told God earlier, he is not a man of words.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You took me back to my very beginning, he wants to add then. You gave me life through blood. I am reborn.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses doesn\u2019t know it yet, but he will never be free from the shadow of his second birth. Water and miracles will continue to define his trials and his fate. He will lead his people through a sea and grant them wellsprings in the desert. He will hit a rock to give them water and die alone by a river he can\u2019t cross. And they \u2013 his people \u2013 they will follow him. They will cross the sea and drink from the wellsprings, flock to the rock and cross the river once he\u2019ll die. But they will do so begrudgingly, distrustfully. They will take his water and his miracles and see him as Other. They won\u2019t see him as a man of flesh and blood and wants.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But this will come later. For now, there are only bloody fingers and a sense of wonder. One day soon, Moses will replace the Nile\u2019s water with red blood. But today, for once, it\u2019s Zipporah turn to birth a miracle. Moses was born in blood, but knew only of the water. Today, Zipporah showed him what it is to come from blood.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The blood is dripping off Zipporah\u2019s fingers, and Moses can\u2019t tear his eyes away.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cAaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said unto Moses, and performed the signs in the sight of the people. \u00a0And the people believed; when they heard that the Lord had remembered the children of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, they bowed and worshipped.\u201d (Exodus 4:30-31)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Wise Daughter:
\r\n<\/strong>When I leave Egypt, I\u2019ll take with me<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The papyrus scroll of prayers our grandfather wrote<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And from which we prayed, begging God<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To take us back to the Old Country of milk and honey.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Wicked Daughter:
\r\n<\/strong>When I leave Egypt, I\u2019ll take with me<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The scars on my back<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>From the whip-lashes of Egyptian taskmasters;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And on my face, their spit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Simple Daughter:
\r\n<\/strong>When I leave Egypt, I\u2019ll take with me<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The dress of many colors my mother wove for me,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Which Egyptian guards ripped<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>When they raped me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Mother:
\r\n<\/strong>When I leave Egypt, I\u2019ll take with me<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A small bottle of the Nile\u2019s water<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>That contains the cry of my new-born son<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Whom Egyptian soldiers drowned.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Daughter who does not know how to ask:
\r\n<\/strong>When I leave Egypt, I\u2019ll take with me<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The plain doll of rags<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>My Egyptian friend gave me;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And hope. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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4:1-But Moses spoke up and said, \u201cWhat if they do not believe me \"lo yaaminu li<\/em>\" and do not listen to me, but say: The LORD did not appear to you?\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Also in 5, 8, 9 and finally in 31: \u201cAaron repeated all the words that the LORD had spoken to Moses, and he performed the signs in the sight of the people, and the people were convinced \"vayeamen ha'am.<\/em>\"\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The root \u05d0-\u05de-\u05e0, \u201caleph-m-n<\/em>\u201d appears no less than 5 times in this chapter, including in the very first and last verses. This root, in its manifestation here in forms of the verb \u201cma\u2019amin<\/em>\u201d means \"believe, trust, be devoted to or have confidence in.\" Hebrew distinguishes between \u05de\u05d0\u05de\u05d9\u05df \u05dc- <\/span>ma-amin l<\/span><\/em>-<\/span><\/i> which is to \"believe\" the veracity of something, versus \u05de\u05d0\u05de\u05d9\u05df \u05d1- <\/span>ma-amin b<\/span><\/em>-<\/span><\/i>, which means to \"believe <\/span>in<\/span><\/em>\" or trust the existence of something. The first affirms that someone, such as Moses here, is telling you the truth. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second is for questions regarding, say, belief in God. The word for religious faith is \u05d0\u05de\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4 <\/span>emunah<\/span><\/em>. And what I believe - my 'credo' (Latin for \"I believe\"), in Hebrew is my \u05d0\u05e0\u05d9 \u05de\u05d0\u05de\u05d9\u05df \"<\/span>ani ma-amin<\/span><\/em>,\" literally my \"I-believe.\" (The word \u05d0\u05de\u05df <\/span>amen<\/span><\/em> (pronounced ah-m\u00e9n), from this root, is used in over a thousand languages as an affirmation, be it of a blessing or a statement.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Interestingly, the word used in this chapter (v. 23) for the \u201cstubborn refusal\u201d to believe is \u201cvatema'en<\/em>\u201d \u2013 \u05d5\u05ea\u05de\u05d0\u05df - the same letters as the root for \u201cbelieve\u201d just in a different order.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Closely related to \u201cemunah<\/em>\u201d is the very fundamental Hebrew word \u05d0\u05de\u05ea <\/span>emet<\/span><\/em>, \"truth\". The root letter \"n\" fell off at some point. Here the word is the same, whether one is talking about God's truth, or just not fibbing. Regarding the divine sort, \u05d0\u05de\u05ea, <\/span>emet<\/span><\/em>, \"truth,\" is said to be God's seal. It is also the seal of Brandeis University (copycats).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While usually translated \"truth\" (or \"true\" \u2013 it can be a noun or an adjective), its derivation from the same root as \u05d0\u05de\u05df, <\/span>amen<\/span><\/em>, alludes to the larger senses of \"firm, steadfast, enduring, trustworthy, faithful, reliable.\" This may be much closer to the original mark than the modern definition of true, meaning that which is accurate or factual, since declarations of truth regarding God, Torah or prophesy, were less an argument about existence, and more about significance or meaning. Belief in the truth of something was not a philosophical statement about the veracity of a claim of fact, but a moral and existential claim about its trustworthiness and faithfulness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The word \u05d0\u05de\u05ea, <\/span>emet<\/span><\/em>, may be a little more well known in the English speaking word in its Yiddish pronunciation, <\/span>emmes<\/span><\/em>. \"The emmes-truth\" used to be slang for \"the real McCoy,\" a \"cross-your-heart\" kind of truth. For instance in the 1976 movie <\/span>Network<\/span><\/i> \u2013 there was a section of the news introduced as: \"It's Jim Webbing and his It's-the-Emmes-Truth Department.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The revelation at the Burning Bush which began in the previous chapter continues. And as in the previous chapter, God is still determined to appoint Moses as His emissary to take the Israelites out of Egypt. Moses is still reluctant.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In response to Moses' concern that \"they won't believe me and they won't listen to me\" (4:1), God equips him with three miraculous signs to prove that he's truly God's emissary: a staff that turns into a snake and back again (4:2-4), an arm that becomes leprous and then is healed again (4:6-7), and water that turns into blood (4:9).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses remains reluctant: \"I am not a man of words, nor was I yesterday nor the day before, nor since You first spoke to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and heavy of tongue\" (4:10). God encourages him, saying: \"Go, and I will be with your mouth\" (4:12), until Moses finally gives up - sort of (and even angers God with his refusal): \"Send whomever You will send\" (4:13) and then is granted his brother Aaron as a reinforcement.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses takes his wife and sons and they set out for Egypt. At night, on the road, a frightening and mysterious incident takes place at an inn which nearly ends in death. Luckily, once again there's a resourceful woman around who does the right thing and saves a life: \"And Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and cast it at his feet, saying: 'You are a bloody bridegroom to me'\" (4:25).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The mission begins successfully (4:27-31) in terms of the Israelites - the magical signs do the trick: \"And the people believed that the Lord had remembered the Israelites\" (4:31).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

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  1. Magical signs<\/b>. In the culture of Egypt, where our story takes place, practical magic was highly respected. The signs seem to speak the same language. How will the Egyptians believe that this is God's doing, not just a magic trick? The answer is revealed in the next chapters...<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The third sign<\/b>. \"And the water which you take from the Nile will turn to blood on land\" (4:9). Sort of like the plague of blood, isn't it?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Signs and symbols<\/b>. Signs can be meaningful, not just impressive. The staff symbolizes leadership. In the Bible, leprosy often afflicts the proud. And the Nile turning to blood symbolizes death in Egypt's lifeline.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Slow of speech<\/b>. Moses calls himself slow of speech. Is this a speech impediment? A difficulty in putting things into words? Stage fright? The commentators have a variety of answers.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    5. <\/span>Bloody bridegroom<\/b>. This story poses more questions than answers: Why does God want to kill Moses? Why is circumcision the key to saving his life? How does Zipporah know that that's what needs to be done?<\/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 4","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":"4","chapter_main_number":"54","date":"20251112","wall_id":"54"},"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\/40554"}],"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=40554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}