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Moses Will Share
The Judicial Burden
Shabbat Yitro: Exodus 18:1-20:23;
Isaiah 6:1-7:6, 9:5-6.
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his sedrah is one of the most one who dispenses justice by
famous in the entire Torah, virtue of superior wisdom.
containing the revelation of
Moses realized the people were
God and the giving of the too numerous and to involved
Ten Commandments. But first with litigation for him to bearth e
we are treated to a fleeting entire judicial burden alone.
glimpse of the domestic life of picked men who were "wise,dis• He
Moses.
cerning and experienced°
The Midrash says that
Jethro volunteered hi;
Aaron convinced Moses of
services as a "manage-
the value of sending his
ment consultant." In the
wife and children from
process, Jethro defined
Egypt back to Jethro for
the ideal, social, spiritu.
safety. Now comes Jethro,
al and moral qualifica
his daughter Zipporah
tions for judges, the
and the two children she
qualities necessary to cre
had with Moses to visit
ate and maintain I
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other of their welfare in true fam- nization of an army.
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Now the Torah is ready forth
Moses told his father-in-law all main event, the formal enactment
that God had done to Pharaoh of the covenant between God and
and to the Egyptians for the sake Israel.
of the Israelites. Ile related all the
The Midrash says that when
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saying, "Now I know that the contradicted their national prat•
Lord is greater than all gods; he tices. But Moses promised to car•
has dealt proudly against them." ry out God's will even before
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