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Yisro/Yitro/Jethro, a man who is mentioned in the book of Shemot/Exodus and elsewhere.

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Rashi's proof of the timing of Yisro's conversation with Moshe about judges

Nimukei Rashi (who spends several pages discussing this) understands that it was clear to Rashi already from the sequence of events as they are related in Sefer Devarim that this episode of Yisro's ad …
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Rashi's apparent internal confusion over יתרו/רְעוּאֵל

Mizrachi, on the Rashi to Shemos 18:1, seems to assume that according to the midrashic opinion that Yisro had seven names, which included both Chovav and R'uel, both Yisro and his father had the name …
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