<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><blockquote><p><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0D0712">"And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines, dancing. And Miriam answered them, 'Sing to the Lord, for He has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider has He thrown into the sea."</font></span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0D0712"> (Shmot 15:20,21)</font></span></font></p></blockquote><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0D0712">Here Miriam is described as both a prophetess and as the sister of Aharon. Why is she not described as the sister of Moshe? Rashi explains that she achieved prophecy at the point when she was </font></span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0D0712">only</font></span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0D0712"> the sister of Aharon, before Moshe was born. What was the content of her prophecy? That one day Moshe would be the savior. This prophecy led Miriam to action: she encouraged her parents who had separated to reunite.</font></span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0D0712">Amram was afraid lest a son be born; the child would be taken and executed. In such a world, he reasoned, it was better not to have children. Miriam chastised her father and declared that he was worse than the hated Par'oh himself, for Par'oh only threatened the male children, while Amram's plan would prevent all children from being born. Amram accepted his daughter's argument; he and Yocheved remarried, and the couple were serenaded by their older children. Soon enough a son was born and the light of his aura filled the room.</font></span></font></p><p><em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0D0712">R' Abraham Ben HaRambam </font></span></font></em><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0D0712">says it was because she was Aaron's equal in prophecy, whereas Moses was the "father" of all prophets, (hence he was in a class by himself).</font></span></font></p></font></div></span></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>