Moral Courage In the Heart of Darkness - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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[Music] do [Music] tonight we will explore the personality the identity and the behavior of that woman in partial schmoys [Music] whom the torah does not identify by name she is one of the most unexpected heroes in the entire tanakh without her moses moishe rabbenu might not have lived and thus the jewish people would not be liberated would not be molded into a nation would not be given the torah in other words without this particular hero judaism and the jewish people may have never emerged the whole story of history would have been changed and yet this woman is not jewish she is not an israelite she does not belong to the family of the hebrews she has nothing to gain by her act but she has everything to lose including her own life and future this is an act of enormous courage and yet it seems that she has no doubts no misgivings she doesn't question herself she doesn't have any hesitation it was para the emperor of egypt who afflicted and persecuted the jewish people who decreed that every jewish boy should be drowned in the nile river and yet there was another member of his own family of paris own family who saved the jewish people and this person is none other than baspari than the daughter of pyre not a sibling not a grandchild not a relative but the very daughter of the king the very daughter of power let us recall the context articulated in partial schmoys paris has decreed death for every male jewish child jochev amram's wife had a baby boy for three months she was able to conceal

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1. 4:06that someone might see him and someone might take pity on him maybe the miracle will…
2. 8:12commentary in the story he notes a contradiction in a nuanced detail moisture's mother could not…
3. 12:21now you could benefit from it pharaoh's daughter comes to submerge and bathe herself in the…
4. 15:52her arm stretched out amma is rabbis into a larger to a longer size so that…
5. 19:57she saw that this was a male and she saw that he had a bris he…
6. 24:06she turned to her mother and says mama yetz cheminshin vanan mother now may i cry…
7. 27:46the daughter the sons of parikh of basia because bastia is the daughter of para who…
8. 31:54the daughter of para in another event of profound tragedy and pain we encountered such a…
9. 36:05and she couldn't even save him but she stretches out her arm she says let me…

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