<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Toby Katz wrote:</div>It is completely impossible to put Miriam's behavior in the same category as <br>calling parents by their first names. Nor is Amram's acceding to her <br>superior wisdom/nevuah in this case -- and re-marrying Yocheved -- remotely similar <br>to the case of an indulgent father who gives in to his kids' whining and <br>spoils them with toys and presents. <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#36228E"><b>I totally agree with your above statement, but you gave a different example in your original post. And <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">that</span> was what I was responding to. My response merely said that I did not see what Miriam said to her parents as "chutzpah" in the example you gave. I think we both agree and the misunderstanding is semantic (and none of us is anti-semantic). </b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#36228E"><b>K.T./B.R.</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#36228E">ri</font></div></body></html>