Questions on Shmot Alef by Tamar Rabinowitz https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833 Collaborative brainstorm and answering en-us 2021-05-04 01:54:46 UTC 2022-03-22 18:16:29 UTC hello@padlet.com Why do Pesukim 17 & 18 end with the same words daharon20241 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491451236 2021-05-04 19:37:22 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491451236 Were there only two midwives? If not why were these two chosen? https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491453601 2021-05-04 19:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491453601 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491455130 how did the king of Egypt know that the midwives didn't kill the children?]]> 2021-05-04 19:38:26 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491455130 Why did he tell the Israelite midwives to do this and not like Egyptian police or something (it would've been more likely to actually happen)? https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491456379 2021-05-04 19:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491456379 What is the reasoning behind killing baby boys and not girls? daharon20241 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491456810 2021-05-04 19:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491456810 If there were so many bnei yisrael, how did the Egyptians gain power over them? tlowenstein2024 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491457216 2021-05-04 19:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491457216 what does it mean "see the stones" bmahgelfriedman20241 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491458686 most like women didn't give birth lying down they did it sitting on stones and the midwives were under the stones looking at the stones and the women giving birth]]> 2021-05-04 19:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491458686 Why does it say וַתְּחַיֶּיןָ אֶת-הַיְלָדִים twice? https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491460104 2021-05-04 19:39:47 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491460104 Why is Pharaoh commanding his entire nation and not just all of the midwives? daharon20241 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491541115 2021-05-04 20:02:00 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491541115 why did God give the midwives houses? were houses a rarity? bmahgelfriedman20241 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491541296 2021-05-04 20:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491541296 Why does Pharaoh not specify to his nation that the baby boys being killed are Hebrewa? daharon20241 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491542497 2021-05-04 20:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491542497 Meir https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491542831 Are the midwives lying when they say that they are unable to assist the births? What does it mean for God to "do good to the midwives"? What does it mean for God to build houses for the midwives? Why did Pharaoh want to cast the boys into the Nile? Why did Pharaoh want the girls to live? Why does it sometimes say Pharaoh and sometimes say the King of Egypt?]]> 2021-05-04 20:02:31 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491542831 Why did the Hebrew women give birth to quick unlike the Egyptian women? https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491542950 2021-05-04 20:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491542950 What was the midwives motive? Fear of God? Or something else? tlowenstein2024 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491544258 2021-05-04 20:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491544258 Why did G-d give them houses as a reward-did they not already have houses? https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491544661 2021-05-04 20:03:04 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/wv07hfai5z32n2ut1631568833/wish/1491544661