Rabbi David Kaplan - Weekly Torah Portion: Shemot - Part 2

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

so we got to yesterday uh we were talking about excuse me and then paro summons the uh the midwives and he says i'm going to start killing the children now uh in possible page 294 this is uh one's name is shifra and one's name is pua shifra because michel paris is of lodge she straightens out the baby 294 uh eight lines for the top shepherd straightens out the baby and pua she kind of goes you know whatever it is that you did account to calm the baby down she coos the bait at the at the baby that's that's what the names officially mean now uh the commentaries say also the word it's interesting because um you know you have it was 130 years old when moshe was born and miraculously she returned to her youth and the word for beauty in hebrew is sufra sufra is beauty and so shifra is an allusion to the fact that she's your head who returned to her beauty in pua the word poor comes from it it has to do with with making a sound miriam was a prophetess the word navi in hebrew comes when he were to express to to to to to talk so here's shifra and pua which is in miriam and zapara says

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1. 0:32so we got to yesterday uh we were talking about excuse me and then paro summons…
2. 3:43that they are behaving selfishly and once a person behaves selfishly you behave selfishly in all…
3. 7:27of all a little bit awkward here that the first puzzle begins with well god did…
4. 10:37kings at cohanim and okay but how does it how does that fit the reward you…
5. 14:16of that mitzvah people watching people see whatever comes off of that mitzvah you you you…
6. 17:56oh a wise girl a wise daughter one of the miracles amram goes back and he…
7. 21:08like this till it hadn't unfolded yet they can't get their eggs together so so but…
8. 24:41she puts it at the edge of the nile now you know let's let's be serious…
9. 27:53with rabbi kaplan i don't think he was doing strange things in sheer right it's those…
10. 31:34what the commentary that's what the the the medrash says so um she sees the child…

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