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Parshat Shemot January 18, 2020 21 Tevet, 5780
Rabbi Sacks on Parshat Shemot
TORAH
ARTSCROLL 292 She is one of the most fetch it. Opening it, she saw and got the child’s own
HERTZ 206 unexpected heroes of the the boy. The child began to mother. “Take this child and
Hebrew Bible. Without cry, and she had pity on it. nurse it,” said Pharaoh’s
HAFTORAH her, Moses might not “This is one of the Hebrew daughter. “I will pay you a
ARTSCROLL 1146 have lived. The whole boys,” she said (Ex. 2:6). fee.” The woman took the
child and nursed it. (Ex. 2:7
story of the exodus would
HERTZ 225 have been different. Yet Note the sequence. First, she –9)
she was not an Israelite. sees that it is a child and has
Aufruf pity on it. A natural, human, The simplicity with which
She had nothing to gain,
this is narrated conceals the
compassionate reaction. Only
and everything to lose,
of then does it dawn on her who astonishing nature of this
Brian Schuman by her courage. Yet she the child must be. Who else encounter. First, how does a
seems to have had no would abandon a child? She child – not just a child, but
Times doubt, experienced no remembers her father’s decree a member of a persecuted
misgivings, made no
hesitation. If it was against the Hebrews. Instantly people – have the audacity
Candle Lighting 4:35 pm Pharaoh who afflicted the the situation has changed. To to address a princess?
Mincha 4:35 pm children of Israel, it was save the baby would mean There is no elaborate
disobeying the royal command. preamble, no “Your royal
another member of his
Hashkama 8:00 am own family who saved That would be serious enough highness” or any other
the decisive vestige of for an ordinary Egyptian; formality of the kind we are
Youth Minyan 8:30 am doubly so for a member of the familiar with elsewhere in
hope: Pharaoh’s biblical narrative. They
Parsha Shiur 8:30 am daughter. Recall the royal family. Nor is she alone seem to speak as equals.
when the event happens. Her
context. Pharaoh had
Main 9:00 am decreed death for every maids are with her; her slave- Equally pointed are the
male Israelite child. girl is standing beside her. She words left unsaid. “You
Beit Midrash 9:15 am must face the risk that one of know and I know,” Moses’
Yocheved, Amram’s wife, them, in a fit of pique, or even sister implies, “who this
Gemara Shiur 4:00 pm had a baby boy. For three mere gossip, will tell someone child is; it is my baby
months she was able to
Mincha 4:30 pm conceal his existence, but about it. Rumors flourish in brother.” She proposes a
no longer. Fearing his royal courts. Yet she does not plan brilliant in its
Shabbat Ends 5:44 pm shift her ground. She does not simplicity. If the real
certain death if she kept tell one of her servants to take mother is able to keep the
R’ Reisman Video 7:30 pm him, she set him afloat the baby and hide it with a child in her home to nurse
Shiur on the Nile in a basket, him, we both minimize the
hoping against hope that family far away. She has the
Sun. Jan. 19 7:30/8:30 am someone might see him courage of her compassion. danger. You will not have to
Teen Minyan 9:30 am and take pity on him. She does not flinch. Now explain to the court how
Mon. & Thurs. 6:35/7:45 am This is what follows: something extraordinary this child has suddenly
appeared. We will be spared
happens: The [child’s] sister
Tue., Wed. & Fri. 6:45/7:45 am Pharaoh’s daughter went said to Pharaoh’s daughter, the risk of bringing him up:
Mincha 4:45 pm to bathe in the Nile, while “Shall I go and call a Hebrew we can say the child is not a
her maids walked along woman to nurse the child for Hebrew, and that the
Latest Times for the Nile’s edge. She saw you?” “Go,” replied Pharaoh’s mother is not the mother
Shema/Shemoneh Esrei the box in the reeds and daughter. The young girl went but only a nurse. Miriam’s
sent her slave-girl to
Jan. 18 9:40/10:28 am ingenuity is matched by
Kiddush is sponsored by Ilene & George Schuman
Jan. 25 9:39/10:28 am
in honor of the upcoming marriage
Next Shabbat of their son Brian to Ashley Dreyfus
Va’era
Candle Lighting 4:44 pm Bima Flowers are sponsored by Paul Weinberg
in honor of the aufruf of his grandson Brian Schuman
Mincha 4:45 pm