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The Zohar (Bamidbar 138a and 187b) points out that this repetition is further unique in that the two "Moshe"s are not separated by a pesik (vertical line), unlike other repeated names in Tanach ["Avraham | Avraham" (Gen. 22:11), "Yaakov | Yaakov" (ibid. 46:2), "Shmuel | Shmuel" (I Sam. 3:10)].
This, says the Zohar, was because Moshe was perfect from birth ...
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On Deut. 21:14, where we have the same ...והיה אם... ו formulation (about the husband of the yefas toar hating her and sending her away), Rashi comments (from Sifri) that "the verse is predicting that you will end up hating her." So in that case, at least, the "it will be" refers to both the אם clause and its outcome. (If the אם clause was parenthetical - ...
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Tol'dos Yotzchak (by Rabbi Yitzchak Karo, uncle of the Bes Yosef), in his commentary to 4:10, says that "כבד לשון" refers to an impediment in pronouncing the so-called tongue letters, דטלנת; "ערל שפתים", the lip letters, בומף; and "כבד פה", the rest. ["לא איש דברים", then, would seem to be an all-embracing expression.]
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According to Ibn Kaspi, "לא איש דברים" means that Moshe was not an eloquent speaker, he was literally not a man of words. This was relevant because God was asking him to be a leader, and good public speaking skills are often thought of as crucial to such a role. No one would ever get elected president or prime minster if they couldn't deliver a good speech.
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No source, but something I thought of when we learned the portion this year.
It was because Datan and Aviram publicized it that Pharaoh needed to take action. Once word got out that a public servant had been murdered while/for doing his job, there would have been a call for justice from the rest of Pharaoh's court.
Pharaoh gave into the public pressure and ...
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Exodus Rabbah 1:26 brings this midrash: one day when Moshe was a child he grabbed Paro's crown and the court magicians counselled Paro to have him killed lest he usurp the throne. Ultimately a test was proposed and Moshe passed (with Gavriel's help), so he was allowed to live. But it's not unreasonable to think that the magicians would continue to caution ...
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If you're assuming no astrology, magic, or other forms of mysticism, then one should look at political / socialogical reasonings, with a historical context.
Pharoah is known to relieve his advisors, if and when he believes they are of no use to him (often "relieving" them of their heads - see e.g. the story of Yosef...)
Naturally, his advisors are ...
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My take is this:
Narrator: G-d said further to Moses:
G-d said: … Go gather the elders of Israel and tell them:
G-d tells Moses to say: G-d, the god of your fathers, appeared to me… saying:
Moses is told to say G-d said: I paid attention to you and to what was done to you in Egypt. And I (G-d) have said:
Moses is told to say G-d said that "G-d of the ...
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Assuming the “astrologers” had no real power of prediction, we must understand what their plan was. What cause the astrologers to make up such a declaration? Perhaps there are two possible explanations to the astrologers plan. One approach is to suggest that the astrologers were working together with Pharaoh to come up with a plan to undermine Bnei Yisroel. ...
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Well, it turns out that if I had been reading the verse in a Chumash rather than a Haggada, my confusion would have been cut short. Rashi (quoting from Gemara Sotah) to that verse clears up the problem very handily:
and depart from the land: against our will. Our Rabbis, however, interpreted [i. e., depicted Pharaoh] as a person who curses himself but ...
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[A friend of mine suggested this answer to me and it seems right: (no source though)]
The dialogue in Shemot 4:10-15 deals with Moshe's apprehension in speaking with the Jewish people.
Similarly Hashem tells Moshe in Passuk 16 that Aharon will be his interpreter- to the Jewish people.
Shemot 4:16:
And he will speak for you to the people, and it will be ...
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On a clinical level, it almost sounds like apraxia of speech.
http://www.apraxia-kids.org/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?c=chKMI0PIIsE&b=839037&ct=837215
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNB0ihI2srQ
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