Parsha Illuminated - Shemos: Pharaoh's Daughter Unsung Hero

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

okay so par illuminated for par shos so we begin a new safer the story of our Exile and slavery in Egypt Redemption the mishan and other uh other exciting mat Torah other exciting and important things in uh in safer shos so right off the right off the bat um bat um parro develops a plan against the Jewish people to enslave them and uh and and then parro releases a decree that the the male son male boys should be thrown in the river and uh after Moshe rabenu after Moshe is born so his mother hides him and when she can no longer hides him and when she can no longer hide him she follows through with the order to put him in the river but she places him in a basket and today I want to pick up from right there and discuss someone who I think is a bit of an unsung hero and that is the daughter of parro daughter of parro known as basa or baa and in as B um so she is going to be our Focus so we'll read a few verses our Focus so we'll read a few verses from paric Bay chapter 2 verse5 and the daughter parro went down to bathe in the river on the river and her her maidens were walking on the side of the river and she saw the box that mosha had been placed in the marsh she sent forth her her either her maid servant or her arm as we'll see and she took it I'm going to just read through the verses and then we'll come back and get a little bit into the details um so then she opened the the box and she saw the boy V behold he was a a lad a weeping lad she had mercy upon him and she

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1. 0:03okay so par illuminated for par shos so we begin a new safer the story of…
2. 4:11mtion okay so let's go back to the beginning and we'll learn some shot some of…
3. 8:21they were on the side literally on the side of the river and uh and the…
4. 12:29up okay um now one are we Rabbi Rabbi okay you go first yeah uh are…
5. 16:36um uh there was one of the reasons that kept him here hidden is because there…
6. 21:16Egyptians actually had great respect for the Ben is the children of of Yakov the descendants…
7. 25:26of Yakov and he took credit for himself and and that's why now following these decrees…
8. 29:37going to save him and uh and even if she even if she well actually that…
9. 33:45could normally do but all of a sudden it uh it she was able to to…
10. 37:51she she's the one who raised him so uh so she's a major she's she's the…

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