tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post7342526697523630194..comments2024-03-05T21:22:43.426-05:00Comments on parshablog: Angels raising the Israelite children in Egyptjoshwaxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03516171362038454070noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-57400625908221723392012-01-18T23:19:23.902-05:002012-01-18T23:19:23.902-05:00ר' שילא אומר כל הילדים שהשליכו ליאור לא מתו אל...ר' שילא אומר כל הילדים שהשליכו ליאור לא מתו אלא היאור הפליט אותם והשליך אותם למדבר מצרים והיה הקב"ה מביא סלע בפי כל אחד ואחד וכו' (פר"א פמ"ב יל"ש רמז קס"הAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-14067785992180816202012-01-14T15:18:57.579-05:002012-01-14T15:18:57.579-05:00Only the printed Gemara-texts read רבי עוירא. The ...Only the printed Gemara-texts read רבי עוירא. The three MSS (Oxford Bodl. 20 d. [2675], Vatican 110, and Munich 95) all read ר' עקיבא.<br /><br />(This is relevant, actually, because of the question of whether early Palestinian Amoraim, who called the ḥaroseth זכר לתפוח, could have been familiar with this story.)Mar Gavrielhttp://tagin-in-exodus.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-34480332502448650362012-01-13T13:34:02.162-05:002012-01-13T13:34:02.162-05:00Thanks so much for explaining this. I was getting ...Thanks so much for explaining this. I was getting my son's version of his morah's explanation, so he might have been a little unclear.<br /><br />This midrash does not seem to be specifically in reference to Pharoh's decree to throw baby boys into the Nile, but to general persecution before that decree. <br /><br />There was also this on the Chabad site in relation to this midrash:<br /><br />"At first, Pharaoh only insisted that they make the prescribed number of bricks each day. Then he commanded that they should not be allowed to sleep in their homes, so that they should not be able to have children. So the taskmasters said to them: "If you go home to sleep, you will lose a few hours each morning from your work, when we send for you, and you will never complete the allotted number." So they made them sleep on the ground out in the field."<br /><br />"What did the daughters of Israel do? They would go down to draw water from the river, and G-d would send them small fish into pitchers, which they drew up half full of water and half full of fish. They then set two pots on the fire, one for hot water and the other for the fish. They sold the fish and bought wine, which they carried to their husbands in the field, and washed, anointed, fed, gave them to drink. They would then take out their mirrors and look into them with their husbands, teasing them, "Look, I am more beautiful than you" thus arousing their desire and cohabiting with them among the sheepfolds, as it is written: "When ye lie among the sheepfolds" (Psalms 68:14). (It was these mirrors which G-d later commanded Moses to use in the making of the washstand in the Sanctuary -- see Exodus 38:8)."<br /><br />Does this mean that there is no midrash (or at least well known midrash) about the baby boys thrown in the Nile being miraculously saved?Laurahttp://pragmaticattic.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com