Who's Who
Moshe's father-in-law, a Midianite priest who advises Moses to establish a hierarchical judicial system to avoid burnout.
Who is Yitro?
This is the geographical name of the mountain where Moses first encounters the Burning Bush, noted explicitly as the "Mountain of God."
What is Har Chorev?
Translate אשר לא ידע את יוסף
That did not know Yosef
What was the Hebrew name of the communal tent that Moshe heard instructions for on Har Sinai?
What is the Mishkan?
The two Hebrew midwives who fear God and courageously defy Pharaoh’s decree to kill the newborn boys.
Who are Shifrah and Puah?
Three days into the desert, the nation cannot drink the water because it is bitter, leading them to name the campsite this Hebrew word.
What is Marah?
Translate נעשה ונשמע
We will do and we will listen/understand
If I were to say that B'nei Yisrael interrupted God giving the 10 Commandments, what key grammatical noticing is key to that interpretation?
The switch from first person to third person
Moshe's firstborn son
Who is Gershom?
Where Bnei Yisrael lives in Mitzrayim.
What is Goshen?
Translate ויקם מלך חדש
A new king arose
According to Ramban, how many times did B'nei Yisrael ask Moshe to speak with them instead of God?
What is two?
Moses’s wife, who quickly performs a circumcision on their son at a lodging place to save Moses from a sudden, lethal divine threat.
Who is Tzipporah?
This is the location where Bnei Yisrael camp when they are unexpectedly attacked by Amalek
What is Rephidim?
Translate אלה אלוהיך ישראל
This/these is/are your God/gods Yisrael
A) What is the name of the verb form that would read משה אמר (rather than the vav hahipuch form of ויאמר משה)?
or B) How does that verb form change the way we translate?
What is past perfect
or it puts the event somewhere in the past (Moshe HAD said)
These two helped hold up Moshe's hands during the battle of Amalek, and were appointed by Moshe to assist leading the people when Moshe went up Har Sinai.
Who are Aharon and Chur?
This is one of the two fortification cities that B'nei Yisrael were forced to build, and is also the name of a very famous Egyptian pharaoh.
What is Ra'amses?
God explicitly avoided routing Bnei Yisrael along this specific coastal highway, and we saw this phrase: כי קרוב הוא. Translate that phrase.
Because it was close
When Moshe encounters God at the burning bush, there is something he does twice. What is it?
He "looks" twice