This weeks parshah, Beshalach, is about the Jews in Egypt and how they were set free. There is a woman in this parsha who plays a very important role. She is Miriam. I really admire her as a role model for the Jewish girls and women. I feel that she is responsible for the parsha and for us being here today. She is also responsible for the birth of Moshe.
Pharaoh said that all newborn males should be thrown into the Nile to drown. At this Amram divorces his wife Yocheved so they will not give birth to a child who has to be drowned. Since Amram was the leader of Shevet Levi the whole tribe divorced their wives as well. At the time Miriam was merely six years old but still knew that everyone divorcing their wives was not a good idea. She went to her father and said “You are wrong. Your decree is harsher than Pharaoh’s because Pharaoh’s decree only extended to males but your decree is harsher and endangers the entire people”. So Amram went back to his wife and the rest of Shevet Levi followed his lead.
Soon Moshe was born. As you all know, Moshe was put into a basket along the Nile. Miriam was on the lookout to make sure nothing dangerous would happen to him. As Miriam the prophet was watching him, she knew that he would one day save all the Jewish people and be their leader but she just wasn’t sure how and it seemed impossible but she had no doubts because she had faith in Hashem. Soon her answer came to her as Pharaoh’s daughter, Bityah, came to the Nile to bathe. Bityah’s arm stretched out to baby Moshe. Seeing her arm stretch out was a sign to Miriam that Hashem made Paraoh’s daughter rescue Moshe. Seeing somebody’s arm stretch out, is not something we see every day.
Besides teaching us faith, Miriam also teaches us to have courage. It took a tremendous amount of courage for her to go up to Pharaoh’s daughter and ask her if Yocheved could be Moshe’s nurse. Inside the palace Moshe learned leadership skills and strength.
Eighty years later when Moshe was leading the Jewish people in the desert, Miriam also played a very important role. She was the teacher for the girls and women. You have probably heard of Moshe being a teacher but Miriam? Most of us haven’t heard that Miriam was a teacher because it isn’t written in the Torah. It isn’t written in the Torah because she didn’t teach per say with lectures and lessons like most like most people teach. She taught the women by the way she acted and by her character and holiness. She didn’t teach with words which I think is like emor me-at veasey harbey. Miriam created a holy atmosphere. Sometimes when people teach or tell something to their students like for example tell them to say thank you but they don’t even say it themselves. It is easier to tell people to do something than to actually do it yourself. She didn’t just teach one subject. The way she acted covered it all. Through her good behavior, she taught everybody to have good behavior as well. An example of this is when Hashem split the sea in two, Miriam took out her drum and started to dance and all the women followed her. It does not say that Miriam told them to follow her; they did it because they saw her example and because they admired her they did it out of their own will.
How is it that the women prepared drums to dance with but not bread to eat? It is because maybe they felt close to Hashem when they danced to him and they felt protected. Their concerns were spiritual and not material. Later Miriam got tzaraat and all of the millions of Jews waited for her. That shows how much they cared for Miriam.
Everything about Miriam is how I want to grow up to be. She has faith in Hashem and teaches that everything is in God’s Hands. Miriam is modest and teaches by example. She cares for everyone, from her little brother to all of bnei yisrael.

Not bo?

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Wow. May she go from chayil to chayil.

Nice!

No. Beshalach. Zerizin makdimin le-mitzvot.


amen


Thank you. I'll pass it along.

Its not this weeks parsha.

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I understand that. I have a bit of facility with the Jewish calendar. The dvar torah was prepared in advance.

Why do I get the impression from the Gemora Sotah 12a that it was ALL the jews who divorced their wives?

hmmm...thank you...I'll have to look into that. I'm glad this was posted well in advance of Beshalach.
Also, was she really 6 at the time and not younger?
ANd would she have said to her father that he is wrong, or would she have asked respectfully if it's possible there's another solution.

Whatever she said, it was a nevuah, wasn't it?

Does she like it that you post it on H.com?


Or you can become Amshinov and have it be bashalach from last year.

If I may ask, is this for any special occasion?



Well that is what the pesikta rabosi 43 says.



Hmm, well there are some [far flunk] midrashim that have her just saying the prophesy about Moses being born and Amram deciding based on that to take back Yocheved, but I think most Midrashim follow more or less how it is in the Gemora.

Also, Beshalach is one of two sets of parshiyos in which three parshah names share a shoresh.
וישלח-בשלח-שלח

She's ok with it. I wouldn't have without her permission.

Why don't you add from the Gemorah Sotah 11b "that it was in the merit of the righteous women of that generation that the jews were redeemed" ?

Thank you for the suggestion. It's not my dvar torah. It's one thing to correct a factual error, but that's editing. I don't tell my kids what to write. Their divrei torah are always self researched and self-written [although I suppose it would be acceptable to leave the saying out in the open in case she should happen to find it on her own by happenstance]

And yes, she is correcting that thing about who divorced whom to include all of BY, so again, thank you kindly.

I stand corrected, I guess I should have paid more attention to the subtitle of the thread, that said, I am impressed (although not knowing how old she is I don't know how impressed I should be [No, don't feel like you have to say], especially considering that I am sure she learns Gemora by herself by now anyhow

I would have thought "Everything about Miriam is how I want to grow up to be." would have been a give a way, but maybe not.

No, because that could still be someone else writing it to sound like she did (as is known to take place).

Here ya go, Yehudi, with the edit

[movie deleted; opportunity missed]

She's hysterical I watched your little movie star three times.

(although [not to be too picky] is it "since he was leader of shevet levi" or "since he was the Godol hador"?)

ETA melech you merited that my 2000 post was in reply to yours (or rather commenting on your child's speech [yeah the first smile was a comment])

Very nice dvar torah.

ETA: I just saw the video and your daughter is very entertaining.

Melech,

While I still think the posut pshat of the gemora which most commentaries follow, is that it was all the Jews I have to admit I found the Kli Yakar in Bamidbar 3:39 where he says it was only Shevet Levi that divorced their wives (he explains that this is the reason why they had the least out of all the tribes)

So I guess you daughter was\is really right after all..."if they are not Prophets they are the children of prophets"

On second thought I am not sure I understand the Kli Yakars reasoning, he makes it sound like it doesn't make sense that people were separated for so many years etc. and therefore concludes that they weren't and it was only shevet levi, however if Miriam was only six at the time that she prophesied, and Ahron was only three years older than Moshe, we are talking about only 2-3 years max ?

So how did it go?

[this post is for when you resurface ]

melech - what in the world is going on, with disabled messages and your disappearing? is everything ok by you?

So I'm not the only one that noticed his sudden dissappearance and retreat?

You're not.

Without Melech, h.com becomes more and more a waste of time.
(Melech: if you are doing this for commendable reasons, consider yourself commended.)

Wow.

If not for the goodness of my heart I would have said something already...

Not sure what you mean by that, but I should have added, "for me."

Wow.


When I disappeared for a while, no one (except for my stalker ) even noticed that I was gone...

People noticed; it's just that you could easily be replaced with minimal effort.
Melech can't be.

If you post Tur threads, I'll miss you when you stop posting them.

Other people are allowed to post tur threads?

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Yes.

Riiiiiiiiiight, as if anyone could even IMITATE K-Rebbe let alone replace him.
Even those with lower than average mental capacity would recognize from the very first post that at best it is a cheap imitation....

Good to know.

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