<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote type="cite">This refers probably to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">her remarking to her father that his decree was worse than Pharo's.</span></blockquote><br><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">In researching what Miriam said to her parents, the following will explain it in context:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; ">Egypt enjoyed the free labor for over half a century before the Pharaoh's astrologers foresaw the birth of an Israelite leader who would end the slavery. Terrified at the economic ramifications of this news, the Pharaoh ordered that all male babies born to Israelite families be drowned in the <a class=" pos" target="_top" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A930287" style="text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060906">Nile River</font></a>. When two leaders of the Israelites, Amram and his wife Yokheved, heard the news, they decided to separate rather than continue to bring babies into the world to a certain death. Many Israelite couples followed their lead and divorced as well. Amram and Yokheved already had two children: a younger boy named Aharon and an older girl named Miriam. Miriam vocally opposed the separation, informing her parents that while Pharaoh was merely preventing the propagation of male progeny, Amram and Yokheved were preventing the propagation of <i>any</i> progeny – male or female. Miriam's parents listened to their daughter and remarried; the divorced Israelite couples followed their lead. Just over six months later, Yokheved gave birth to a healthy baby boy. The year was 2368 after creation, or 1527 BC.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Now in the above context, there is no chutzpah or disrespect. Also, Miriam wasn't being cute or presumptuous at all. She was demonstrating a strong characteristic of bitochon and unwavering faith in HaShem. To say that Pharaoh was merely preventing the propagation of male progeny and her parents were preventing the propagation of <i>any</i> progeny – male or female was like giving them a pep talk. No one would ever compare the motive of Pharaoh with the motive of her parents. That obviously was not the comparison -- but rather a gentle push to motivate Amram and Yokheved to be brave and defy Pharaoh.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">KT/BR</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">ri</span></font></div></body></html>