Parashat Yisro
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===The Decision=== | ===The Decision=== | ||
− | [[Yisro|Yitro]] the former High Priest of Midyon, hears all the miracles that Hashem performed for the Jews | + | [[Yisro|Yitro]] the former High Priest of Midyon, hears all the miracles that Hashem performed for the Jews, especially the splitting of the sea, the battle with Amelek,<ref>Rashi</ref> the Manna, the Well and primarily how Hashem took them out of Egypt.<ref>Rashi</ref> He had also been told by Tziporah how Moshe was saved from near death by a serpent like angle after procrastinating to circumcise Eliezer.<ref>Baal Haturim</ref> Yitro takes his daughter Tzipora, Moshe's wife and her two sons Gershom and Eliezer and travels to Moshe who is encamped with the Jewish Nation by Mount Sini. Tzipora and the two kids had originally left Midyon with Moshe. When on route at Har Sinai they met Aharon, he rebuked his brother for bringing more people to suffer in the servitude of Egypt and Moshe sent them back to Yisro's home.<ref>Rashi</ref> Gershom was named after Moshe's stature as a foreigner in a strange land and Eliezer was named in commemoration of Hashem saving him from the sword of Pharaoh's executioner by having his neck harden to a state of marble,<ref>Rashi</ref> after the snitching of Dassan and Aviram<ref>Rashi</ref> of his slaying the Egyptian taskmaster. |
− | + | Originally while living in Midyon Moshe had credited his stature to Yisro. Now Yisro prided himself as being the father-in-law of Moshe.<ref>Rashi</ref> Yitro led a very physically comfortable life in Midyon yet he forfeited it and for the sake of hearing the teachings of the Torah and traveled to live in the barren wilderness.<ref>Rashi</ref> | |
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===The Message=== | ===The Message=== | ||
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===The Acknowledgment=== | ===The Acknowledgment=== | ||
− | In order to attract his heart and draw Yisro close to the Torah, Moshe informs him all that Hashem did to Pharaoh and the Egyptians and about the travails of the sea and Amelek. Yisro is happy about the miracles of the Manna, the well,<ref>Rashi</ref> the Torah laws | + | In order to attract his heart and draw Yisro close to the Torah, Moshe informs him all that Hashem did to Pharaoh and the Egyptians and about the travails of the sea and Amelek. Yisro is happy about the miracles of the Manna, the well,<ref>Rashi</ref> the Torah laws they had been given so far and primarily regarding salvation of the Jews. Having previously been part of the Egyptian society, Yitro was well aware of their toughness and the hardness of Pharoah himself.<ref>Rashi</ref> He also knew that to that day no slave had ever manged to escape from Egypt<ref>Rashi</ref> due to physical defenses and occult spells<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Yisro">Shover Zadim Parshas Yisro</ref> and now a Nation of over a million people had managed to flee. Yet at the same time Yisro's body felt as if it was being pricked by needles at the news of the Egyptians demise since he himself was a gentile.<ref>Rashi</ref> |
− | Yisro proceeds to bless Hashem for saving the Jews from the tyrannization and domination of the of the strong Egyptians and Pharoah, their strong king.<ref>Rashi Shemos 18:10</ref> Yitro acknowledges that although he knew about Hashem in the past,<ref name="Rashi Shemos 18:11">Rashi Shemos 18:11</ref> he now fully recognizes His greatness. Yisro was knowledgeable in all the pagan deities that existed and had formerly tried worshiping them all, his recognition of Hashem's complete supremacy was an important thing. At that moment Hashem's name became glorified in all the Upper and Lower Realms<ref>Zohar</ref> since Hashem's main glory is specifically when those that are furthest from Him come close.<ref>Likutay Halachos, Kriyas Hatorah 6/17-25</ref> Having taken part in the original conference regarding the drowning of the Jewish male new born,<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Yisro"/> Yisro was very impressed that the Egyptians had been punished in the same exact method of death through water,<ref>Rashi</ref> in the very pot in which they cooked, they themselves were cooked.<ref name="Rashi Shemos 18:11" | + | Yisro proceeds to bless Hashem for saving the Jews from the tyrannization and domination of the of the strong Egyptians and Pharoah, their strong king.<ref>Rashi Shemos 18:10</ref> Yitro acknowledges that although he knew about Hashem in the past,<ref name="Rashi Shemos 18:11">Rashi Shemos 18:11</ref> he now fully recognizes His greatness. Yisro was knowledgeable in all the pagan deities that existed and had formerly tried worshiping them all, his recognition of Hashem's complete supremacy was an important thing. At that moment Hashem's name became glorified in all the Upper and Lower Realms<ref>Zohar</ref> since Hashem's main glory is specifically when those that are furthest from Him come close.<ref>Likutay Halachos, Kriyas Hatorah 6/17-25</ref> Having taken part in the original conference regarding the drowning of the Jewish male new born,<ref name="Shover Zadim Parshas Yisro"/> Yisro was very impressed that the Egyptians had been punished in the same exact method of death through water,<ref>Rashi</ref> in the very pot in which they cooked, they themselves were cooked.<ref name="Rashi Shemos 18:11"> |
===The Feast=== | ===The Feast=== |