- How many were the souls that came from Yaacov?
70
- What were the names of the two store-cities that the Israelites built for the new Pharaoh?
Pithom and Raamses.
- How do you spell Pharaoh?
P H A R A O H
- What were the names of the two midwives that Pharaoh dealt with?
Shiphrah, Puah
- Why did Pharaoh want to do away with the male Hebrew children as opposed to the female children? Why not both?
Women would not be a threat in time of war and would serve as good slaves, as well as being absorbed into the Egyptian population.
- Why did the midwives disobey Pharaoh?
They feared Hashem.
- When Moshe was born, his mother saw that he was a goodly child and she hid him for three months. What does it mean, a goodly child?
He did not cry.
- We are told that Moshe fled Egypt and dwelt in the land of Midian. The next thing we are told was that he sat down where and what happened?
By a well and seven daughters of the priest of Midian came to water their flock. Moshe helped them.
- Of what other two instances in previous parashot does this story remind you?
Eliezer when he came to find a wife for Yitzhak and Yaakov when he stopped at the well to help Rachel.
- What was the name of Moshe and Zipporah's first child? And what does the name mean or signify?
Gershom; For I was a stranger in a strange land.
- What is the symbolism of the burning bush?
It is symbolic of the Egyptian Exile. Hashem was in the lowly thornbush because he joined in the suffering of his People. The bush itself represents Israel and could not be consumed because Hashem does not allow his Nation to be destroyed.
- What were two signs that Hashem gave Moshe to prove that He was Hashem?
Moshe's rod turned into a serpent and then back again, and when he put his hand inside his blouse it became leperous, and when he returned it, it became healthy again.
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