Difference between revisions of "Plot – Shemot 18/0"
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<h1>Plot Development – Shemot 18</h1> | <h1>Plot Development – Shemot 18</h1> | ||
− | <h2>< | + | <h2><a href="Plot Listed by Verse – Shemot 18" data-aht="page">Full List – Verse by Verse</a></h2> |
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− | <h2>< | + | <h2><a href="Yitro's Visit – Purpose and Significance" data-aht="page">Yitro's Visit – Purpose and Significance</a></h2> |
<p>Why did Yitro come?</p> | <p>Why did Yitro come?</p> | ||
− | <h2>< | + | <h2><a href="Two Accounts which Yitro Heard" data-aht="page">Two Accounts which Yitro Heard</a></h2> |
<p>What is the relationship between the account Yitro heard while still in Midyan and what he heard from Moshe?</p> | <p>What is the relationship between the account Yitro heard while still in Midyan and what he heard from Moshe?</p> | ||
− | <h2>< | + | <h2><a href="אחר שלוחיה – Who Sent What to Whom" data-aht="page">אחר שלוחיה</a></h2> |
<p>Who Sent What to Whom?</p> | <p>Who Sent What to Whom?</p> | ||
− | <h2>< | + | <h2><a href="When Did Zipporah Return to Midyan" data-aht="page">When did Zipporah Return to Midyan?</a></h2> |
<p>At last mention, Zipporah was accompanying Moshe back to Egypt. When did she go back to Yitro's home?</p> | <p>At last mention, Zipporah was accompanying Moshe back to Egypt. When did she go back to Yitro's home?</p> | ||
− | <h2>< | + | <h2><a href="Who Accompanied Yitro" data-aht="page">Who Accompanied Yitro?</a></h2> |
<p>Moshe's family or Yitro's own wife and children?</p> | <p>Moshe's family or Yitro's own wife and children?</p> | ||
− | <h2>< | + | <h2><a href="כי בדבר אשר זדו עליהם – Power and Justice" data-aht="page">כי בדבר אשר זדו עליהם</a></h2> |
<p>What led to Yitro's realization of God's greatness?</p> | <p>What led to Yitro's realization of God's greatness?</p> | ||
− | <h2>< | + | <h2><a href="Yitro's Sacrifices and Eating Bread Before God" data-aht="page">"Eating Bread Before God"</a></h2> |
<p>Why does Yitro offer sacrifices? What does "eating bread before God" mean? Why is Moshe not mentioned in verse 12?</p> | <p>Why does Yitro offer sacrifices? What does "eating bread before God" mean? Why is Moshe not mentioned in verse 12?</p> | ||
− | <h2>< | + | <h2><a href="Long Lines of Litigants" data-aht="page">Long Lines of Litigants</a></h2> |
<p>Why were there so many litigants?</p> | <p>Why were there so many litigants?</p> | ||
− | <h2>< | + | <h2><a href="Moshe's Duties and Yitro's Advice" data-aht="page">Moshe's Duties and Yitro's Advice</a></h2> |
<p>Did Yitro's proposal address only Moshe's judicial burden or also his other responsibilities?</p> | <p>Did Yitro's proposal address only Moshe's judicial burden or also his other responsibilities?</p> | ||
− | <h2>< | + | <h2><a href="Did Moshe Need Yitro's Advice" data-aht="page">Did Moshe Need Yitro's Advice?</a></h2> |
<p>Why didn't Moshe think of Yitro's suggestion on his own?</p> | <p>Why didn't Moshe think of Yitro's suggestion on his own?</p> | ||
− | <h2>< | + | <h2><a href="Yitro's System – A Bloated Bureaucracy" data-aht="page">Yitro's System – A Bloated Bureaucracy?</a></h2> |
<p>How did Yitro's system work? Were there really thousands of chosen heads (שרים)? What was their function?</p> | <p>How did Yitro's system work? Were there really thousands of chosen heads (שרים)? What was their function?</p> | ||
− | <h2>< | + | <h2><a href="Advice and Implementation" data-aht="page">Advice and Implementation</a></h2> |
<p>Did Moshe implement Yitro's advice to the letter or did he make modifications?</p> | <p>Did Moshe implement Yitro's advice to the letter or did he make modifications?</p> | ||
− | <h2>< | + | <h2><a href="Yitro's Life After Shemot 18" data-aht="page">Yitro's Life After Shemot 18</a></h2> |
<p>Did Yitro ever return? Why did Moshe send Yitro away, yet beg Chovav to stay in Bemidbar 10?</p> | <p>Did Yitro ever return? Why did Moshe send Yitro away, yet beg Chovav to stay in Bemidbar 10?</p> | ||
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<h1>Plot Development – Shemot 18</h1> | <h1>Plot Development – Shemot 18</h1> | ||
<ul> | <ul> | ||
− | <li>18:1 – < | + | <li>18:1 – <a href="Yitro's Visit – Purpose and Significance" data-aht="page">What was the purpose of Yitro's visit?</a></li> |
− | <li>18:2 – < | + | <li>18:2 – <a href="אחר שלוחיה – Who Sent What to Whom" data-aht="page">"אחר שלוחיה"</a> – Who Sent What to Whom?</li> |
− | <li>18:11 – < | + | <li>18:11 – <a href="כי בדבר אשר זדו עליהם – Power and Justice" data-aht="page">כי בדבר אשר זדו עליהם</a> – What led to Yitro's realization?</li> |
− | <li>18:12 – Why does < | + | <li>18:12 – Why does <a href="Yitro's Sacrifices and Eating Bread Before God" data-aht="page">Yitro offer sacrifices?</a> What does <a href="Yitro's Sacrifices and Eating Bread Before God" data-aht="page">"eating bread before God"</a> mean?</li> |
− | <li>18:13 – Why were there < | + | <li>18:13 – Why were there <a href="Long Lines of Litigants" data-aht="page">so many litigants</a>?</li> |
− | <li>18:15-23 – Judging the people was only one of Moshe's < | + | <li>18:15-23 – Judging the people was only one of Moshe's <a href="Moshe's Duties and Yitro's Advice" data-aht="page">many roles.</a> Did Yitro's proposal address only Moshe's judicial burden or <a href="Moshe's Duties and Yitro's Advice" data-aht="page">also his other responsibilities?</a></li> |
− | <li>18:13-26 – < | + | <li>18:13-26 – <a href="Did Moshe Need Yitro's Advice" data-aht="page">Did Moshe need Yitro's advice?</a> Why didn't Moshe think of Yitro's suggestion on his own?</li> |
− | <li>18:21-26 – How did < | + | <li>18:21-26 – How did <a href="Yitro's System – A Bloated Bureaucracy" data-aht="page">Yitro's system</a> work? Were there really thousands of chosen heads (שרים)? What was their function?</li> |
</ul> | </ul> | ||
<h1>Contradictions, Omissions, and Repetitions – Shemot 18</h1> | <h1>Contradictions, Omissions, and Repetitions – Shemot 18</h1> | ||
<ul> | <ul> | ||
− | <li>18:1,8 – What is the < | + | <li>18:1,8 – What is the <a href="Two Accounts which Yitro Heard" data-aht="page">relationship between the account</a> Yitro heard while still in Midyan and what he heard from Moshe?</li> |
− | <li>18:2 – < | + | <li>18:2 – <a href="When Did Zipporah Return to Midyan" data-aht="page">When did Zipporah return to Midyan?</a></li> |
<li>18:3 – Why does the Torah need to repeat the reason for Gershom's name?</li> | <li>18:3 – Why does the Torah need to repeat the reason for Gershom's name?</li> | ||
− | <li>18:5 – < | + | <li>18:5 – <a href="Who Accompanied Yitro" data-aht="page">Who accompanied Yitro?</a></li> |
− | <li>18:10 – What is the meaning of the repetition of the phrase "< | + | <li>18:10 – What is the meaning of the repetition of the phrase "<a href="Literary Devices – Shemot 18/0#LeadWords" data-aht="page">אשר הציל...</a>" in verse 10?</li> |
− | <li>18:12 – Why is < | + | <li>18:12 – Why is <a href="Yitro's Sacrifices and Eating Bread Before God/2#WhereWasMoshe" data-aht="page">Moshe not mentioned</a> in verse 12?</li> |
− | <li>18:24-26 – < | + | <li>18:24-26 – <a href="Advice and Implementation" data-aht="page">Did Moshe implement Yitro's advice</a> to the letter or did he make modifications?</li> |
− | <li>18:27 – < | + | <li>18:27 – <a href="Yitro's Life After Shemot 18" data-aht="page">Why did Moshe send Yitro away</a> in verse 27 (<i>vayshalach</i>), while begging Chovav to stay in Bemidbar 10?</li> |
</ul> | </ul> | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:54, 11 August 2014
Plot Development – Shemot 18
Full List – Verse by Verse
Yitro's Visit – Purpose and Significance
Why did Yitro come?
Two Accounts which Yitro Heard
What is the relationship between the account Yitro heard while still in Midyan and what he heard from Moshe?
אחר שלוחיה
Who Sent What to Whom?
When did Zipporah Return to Midyan?
At last mention, Zipporah was accompanying Moshe back to Egypt. When did she go back to Yitro's home?
Who Accompanied Yitro?
Moshe's family or Yitro's own wife and children?
כי בדבר אשר זדו עליהם
What led to Yitro's realization of God's greatness?
"Eating Bread Before God"
Why does Yitro offer sacrifices? What does "eating bread before God" mean? Why is Moshe not mentioned in verse 12?
Long Lines of Litigants
Why were there so many litigants?
Moshe's Duties and Yitro's Advice
Did Yitro's proposal address only Moshe's judicial burden or also his other responsibilities?
Did Moshe Need Yitro's Advice?
Why didn't Moshe think of Yitro's suggestion on his own?
Yitro's System – A Bloated Bureaucracy?
How did Yitro's system work? Were there really thousands of chosen heads (שרים)? What was their function?
Advice and Implementation
Did Moshe implement Yitro's advice to the letter or did he make modifications?
Yitro's Life After Shemot 18
Did Yitro ever return? Why did Moshe send Yitro away, yet beg Chovav to stay in Bemidbar 10?