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Yes [music] Abigail Abigail loves like me to paper not the basic Nikar Tagir Niush in Sha'abun or is it okay Israel on my back just good so I have a debt from two weeks ago so this lesson is a debt repayment on two weeks ago it was Parashat Shemot that there was no lesson that I that I heard the lesson it was yes good so in Parashat Shemot in the second chapter of Parashat Shemot the truth chapter 1 and 2 of the Book of Exodus on the face of it the Pentateuch is called Shemot Exodus has weight and meaning but the characters from the beginning that we read about in the bottom of the Book of Exodus are anonymous that it is the the Book of Exodus are anonymous that it is the Hebrew midwives Shifa Pooh that we did not penetrate it is not their personal names it is either Yochabet and Miriam or Yochabet and Elisheva Yisheva Aaron's wife or it is mother and daughter or mother and Caleta anyway oh what doesn't matter anyway Hazal say we said exactly that language here it is not it is not a name it is an alias exactly that language here it is not it is not a name it is an alias for the role of the doula and the doula is Shifra and Puah it is the babysitter or I don't know oh Mazal Tov tractate for me Elisheva Elisheva was born a little while ago, she was just born, a little while ago, she survived, yes,
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