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<h1>Plot Development – Shemot 18</h1>
 
<h1>Plot Development – Shemot 18</h1>
  
<h2><aht page="Plot Listed by Verse – Shemot 18">Full List – Verse by Verse</aht></h2>
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<h2><a href="Plot Listed by Verse – Shemot 18" data-aht="page">Full List – Verse by Verse</a></h2>
 
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<h2><aht page="Yitro's Visit – Purpose and Significance">Yitro's Visit – Purpose and Significance</aht></h2>
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<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><aht page="Two Accounts which Yitro Heard">Two Accounts which Yitro Heard</aht></h2>
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<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><aht page="אחר שלוחיה – Who Sent What to Whom">אחר שלוחיה</aht></h2>
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<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><aht page="When Did Zipporah Return to Midyan">When did Zipporah Return to Midyan?</aht></h2>
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<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><aht page="Who Accompanied Yitro">Who Accompanied Yitro?</aht></h2>
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<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><aht page="כי בדבר אשר זדו עליהם – Power and Justice">כי בדבר אשר זדו עליהם</aht></h2>
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<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><aht page="Yitro's Sacrifices and Eating Bread Before God">"Eating Bread Before God"</aht></h2>
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<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><aht page="Long Lines of Litigants">Long Lines of Litigants</aht></h2>
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<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><aht page="Moshe's Duties and Yitro's Advice">Moshe's Duties and Yitro's Advice</aht></h2>
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<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><aht page="Did Moshe Need Yitro's Advice">Did Moshe Need Yitro's Advice?</aht></h2>
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<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><aht page="Yitro's System – A Bloated Bureaucracy">Yitro's System – A Bloated Bureaucracy?</aht></h2>
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<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><aht page="Advice and Implementation">Advice and Implementation</aht></h2>
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<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><aht page="Yitro's Life After Shemot 18">Yitro's Life After Shemot 18</aht></h2>
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<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>
 
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<li>18:1 – <aht page="Yitro's Visit – Purpose and Significance">What was the purpose of Yitro's visit?</aht></li>
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<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 – <aht page="אחר שלוחיה – Who Sent What to Whom">"אחר שלוחיה"</aht> – Who Sent What to Whom?</li>
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<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 – <aht page="כי בדבר אשר זדו עליהם – Power and Justice">כי בדבר אשר זדו עליהם</aht> – What led to Yitro's realization?</li>
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<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 <aht page="Yitro's Sacrifices and Eating Bread Before God">Yitro offer sacrifices?</aht>  What does <aht page="Yitro's Sacrifices and Eating Bread Before God">"eating bread before God"</aht> mean?</li>
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<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 <aht page="Long Lines of Litigants">so many litigants</aht>?</li>
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<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 <aht page="Moshe's Duties and Yitro's Advice">many roles.</aht>  Did Yitro's proposal address only Moshe's judicial burden or <aht page="Moshe's Duties and Yitro's Advice">also his other responsibilities?</aht></li>
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<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 – <aht page="Did Moshe Need Yitro's Advice">Did Moshe need Yitro's advice?</aht>  Why didn't Moshe think of Yitro's suggestion on his own?</li>
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<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 <aht page="Yitro's System – A Bloated Bureaucracy">Yitro's system</aht> work?  Were there really thousands of chosen heads (שרים)?  What was their function?</li>
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<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>
 
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<h1>Contradictions, Omissions, and Repetitions – Shemot 18</h1>
 
<h1>Contradictions, Omissions, and Repetitions – Shemot 18</h1>
 
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<li>18:1,8 – What is the <aht page="Two Accounts which Yitro Heard">relationship between the account</aht> Yitro heard while still in Midyan and what he heard from Moshe?</li>
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<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 – <aht page="When Did Zipporah Return to Midyan">When did Zipporah return to Midyan?</aht></li>
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<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 – <aht page="Who Accompanied Yitro">Who accompanied Yitro?</aht></li>
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<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 "<aht page="Literary Devices – Shemot 18/0#LeadWords">אשר הציל...</aht>" in verse 10?</li>
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<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 <aht page="Yitro's Sacrifices and Eating Bread Before God/2#WhereWasMoshe">Moshe not mentioned</aht> in verse 12?</li>
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<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 – <aht page="Advice and Implementation">Did Moshe implement Yitro's advice</aht> to the letter or did he make modifications?</li>
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<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 – <aht page="Yitro's Life After Shemot 18">Why did Moshe send Yitro away</aht> in verse 27 (<i>vayshalach</i>), while begging Chovav to stay in Bemidbar 10?</li>
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<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>
 
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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?