[Avodah] Moshe Rabeinu and his family

[Zev Sero]

On 9/03/2011 3:24 PM, Eliyahu Grossman wrote:
> I had responded because of the answer that was given:
>
> 	" He grew up in his parents' house for two years; by the time he
> went back to Bat Par`o he was old enough to have started forming memories,
> and would remember them."
>
> Nowhere does it say that in the text, and I stand by that.

It certainly does.


> Midrash Berasthi Rabbah 1:26, however, says that he was weaned for 2 years,
> not Sepher Shemot.

Two years was the standard time for nursing.  The pasuk says his mother
had him until he was weaned; therefore that was two years.  There's no
need for any midrashim.  This is peshat, not derush.


> Nor does the text say that he grew up in his parent's house

It certainly does.  It says Bat Par`o gave him to his mother, and that
his mother gave him back after he grew up.  This obviously means after
he was weaned; what else could it possibly mean?  The language is not
vague.  Peshat does not mean hyperliteralism.


>  That very same Midrash also has a nuance in the language to
> indicate that she did not rear the child, but simply weaned him

Weaned him?  Did you mean nursed him?  Where did she do so?  If she
didn't raise him, who did?  It couldn't have been Bat Par`o, because
she doesn't get him back until after his mother is done with him.
In any case, I'm not talking about diyukim in medrash, I'm talking
about the plain meaning of the pasuk.

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