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Moses
Moses is the most important prophet in Judaism and is also important in Christianity and Islam. Moses led the Israelites out of their slavery in Egypt, miraculously crossing a divided Red Sea. At Mount Sinai he received the Ten Commandments. He led the Israelites through 40 years of desert wandering and finally to the Promised Land. He died there, within sight of his goal, at the age of 120.
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The Bible does not mention the names of any daughters.
Why are damaged Torah-scrolls buried?
If the damage is confined to one relatively small area, then that piece can be removed
and either repaired or replaced. If the damage is spread throughout a large part of
the scroll, such as the result of flood or fire damage, then the entire scroll is retired.
In either case, the damaged section or scroll are buried, in a Jewish cemetary.
Also in either case, a Torah with any fault, damage, or blemish may not be used for
the public reading during the synagogue service, even if the damaged part is far
from the portion being read. Any reading from any part of the text requires a
completely perfect scroll.
1) Nearly being killed in infancy and again as a young man (Exodus ch.2).
2) Being unsure of his abilities (Exodus ch.3-4).
3) Opposition (Exodus ch.5, Numbers ch.16-17).
4) The stubbornness of Pharaoh (Exodus ch.6-8).
5) Pharaoh's army (Exodus ch.14).
6) Complaints (Exodus ch.15, Numbers ch.11).
7) War (Exodus ch.17, Numbers ch.21).
8) Sinners (Exodus ch.32, Numbers ch.25).
9) Doubters (Numbers ch.13).
10) The attempted curses of Bil'am (Numbers ch.22-24).
Note that for some of the above, more than two examples could be given. And it should be pointed out that a lot of the overcoming of problems was thanks to God's help.
More about Moses:
Moses was an Israelite, a great-great grandson of Jacob. He was born 245 years after the death of Abraham. The time when Moses was born was when the Pharaoh had ordered his people to kill all Israelite male infants because he (Pharaoh) was afraid that the Israelites would become too strong for him (Exodus ch.1-2).
Moses' mother didn't want him to die. So she made a basket for him and put him in it to float in the Nile reeds. He was found by Pharaoh's daughter, who took pity on him (Exodus ch.2) and raised him as her own son.
Moses was forced to flee after killing a cruel Egyptian taskmaster, and went to Midian, where he wedded the daughter of Jethro.
He eventually achieved the highest level of prophecy (Deuteronomy ch.34) and was called upon by God (Exodus ch.3). He brought the Israelites out of Egyptian slavery (Exodus ch.12). He received the Torah from God (Exodus 24:12) and later recorded it in writing (Deuteronomy 31:24). He went up on Mount Sinai for 40 days and nights (Deuteronomy ch.9-10) and brought down the Two Stone Tablets with the Ten Commandments (Exodus 31:18). He brought the Israelites into the covenant with God (Exodus ch.19 and ch.24), and he oversaw the building of the Tabernacle (Exodus ch.35-40). He was the humblest of men and the greatest of prophets (Numbers ch.12).
Moses from the Bible? He more kind of 'was' than 'is'.
He was a 2nd or 3rd generation immigrant descendent of a bunch of nomadic tribes people, from a place called Canaan who were so dominated by a single family called "Israel" that they liked to call themselves "Israelites"; and who, having failed to make ends meet in their own land, had trecked over to Egypt in search of food for their empty bellies.
Moses had a kind of privileged up-bringing in the royal court (following a bizarre set of events), away from his family. And that up-bringing will have given him self-confidence and a certain lack of defference to authority; but it also gave him some patriotic feeling for the plight of his own ethnic group who were increasingly out of favour by the Pharaoh and his cronies.
He was a leader, either by birth or by up-bringing, and led his compatriots up and out of Egypt, with some intention of leading them back home to Canaan. Beyond a doubt, Moses was a devout follower of his religion; but with equal certainty, he was no navigator. He led the Israelites a merry dance for some 40 years to travel around 400km, and actually expired before getting there.
That's the sort of peron Moses was.
Abraham was a 'friend' of God and kept all His commandments. The most dramatic test for Abraham was being asked to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. Abraham was about to do so when God intervened via an angel. Read it for yourself in Genesis 22. Because of Abrahams deep faith, God made His covenant with Abraham irrevocable and permanent.
How was Moses' appearance changed when he came down from the mountain?
When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, his face emanated rays that reflected God's glory.
Exodus 34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
How long was Moses in the desert?
Moses and the Israelites spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness, which comes to 14,600 days. Moses was an Israelite who was made a prince in the Egyptian palace, and later became a religious leader as well as a prophet.
Why is Moses known as Moses the lawgiver?
Emancipator: because God sent him to Pharaoh to demand the freedom of the Israelites (Exodus ch.3), thus setting the Exodus in motion.
Lawgiver: because it was Moses who conveyed God's Torah to the Israelites (Exodus 24:12).
To correct the above, He married a Kushite woman. Kushite's were the southern neighbors of Egypt which is modern day Ethiopia and Sudan.
What was the name for the laws given to Moses?
They are the laws in the Torah. However, the Torah contains not only laws.
Our tradition is that the Torah was given by God (Exodus 24:12), to provide knowledge, guidance, inspiration, awe and reverence, advice, law, comfort, history and more. It is the basis of Judaism.
The Torah is a source of national pride for us (see Deuteronomy 4:6-8).
It increases our reverence towards God; crystallizes, strengthens and codifies our beliefs; ensures our awareness and knowledge of our history; and provides powerful impetus to be ethical.
It makes us stand in awe of God, while also providing optimism and comfort through the prophecies of redemption. It inspires us to strive for holiness and informs us how to pray and to approach God's presence.
It gives us a great deal of general information, guidance and advice.
And it sets detailed laws, practices and traditions for us.
The laws themselves have various reasons. Some (such as the Passover) serve to reenact or remember events of our history.
Some (such as saying the Shema-prayer) serve to reiterate our belief in God.
Some of the laws (such as those of ritual purity and kosher food) serve to sanctify us.
Some (such as the laws of torts) serve to maintain an orderly society.
Some (such as the law against breaking a vow) serve to prevent bad character traits.
Some (such as the command to offer help) serve to engender good character traits.
And all of the commands serve to subjugate us to God's will (especially those commands for which no explanation is easily apparent).
Some examples of the commands:
Putting on Tefillin (a.k.a. phylacteries) in the morning
The sukkah-booth during Sukkot
Avoiding leavened products in Passover
Not eating on Yom Kippur
Not working on the Shabbat
Paying workers on time
Marital rights for one's wife
Counting the days of the Omer
Returning lost objects when feasible
Wearing the tzitzith-garment
Learning Torah
Marrying and having children
Educating one's children in Judaism
Giving tzedakah (charity)
Honoring one's parents
And many more.
Note that the Torah "as is" isn't exactly what Judaism observes. Rather, It's the Torah together with the details provided in the Talmud, which is the Oral Law that was handed down together with the laws of Moses. Otherwise, the verses of the Torah often lack enough detail to be fulfilled as is.
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What relationship did Moses have with God?
Since the Pharaoh's daughter "adopted" Moses, he was royalty. But then when Moses realized he was Jewish and wanted his people free, Pharaoh didn't like him / agree.
but don't worry
Moses got free
He had only one, Moses was married to a woman from the land of Midian named Zipporah.
What happened to Moses mother?
She (Yocheved), at the behest of Pharaoh's daughter, nursed Moshe (Moses). As far as I know, she lived long enough to enter the Holy Land with the rest of her nation.
Why did God call Moses to Mount Nebo?
He looked over the Jordan River into the Promised Land and then passed away.
Where did pharaohs daughter find Moses?
The daughter of the Pharaoh came down to the river Nile for a bath, when she found Moses.The word Moses means taken out of the water.
Why did Moses mom abandon him?
The Egyptians had decreed to kill all the newborn Israelite boys. Moses' mother hid him for three months (Exodus ch.2) in the house, but later found herself unable to do so (ibid). She then placed him in a waterproofed basket in the river bullrushes (ibid), in the hope that God would provide some form of rescue for him, and that is what happened.
How long did Moses serve the lord?
Forty years (plus the year of the Ten Plagues, plus a couple of years in his infancy).
Why did Moses tell people you should honor your mother and father?
Moses did not tell people that. God told them. The Ten Commandments were spoken by God to the entire assembled nation of the Israelites at Mount Sinai (Exodus ch.19-20), and honoring one's parents is one of these Commandments. Honoring one's parents has many reasons. Two of them are: to help hold the family together, and to make it possible for the parents to teach the traditions to the next generation.
How many Israelites did Moses save from Egypt?
There are no precise records of the number of Jews at the time of the Exodus.
However Exodus 12:37, says 600,000 walking men plus children. In the census taken about a year after the Exodus, recorded at Numbers 1:2, 3, 45, 46, there were 603,550 males (20 years old and older) plus 22,000 male Levites over one month old (Numbers 2:32, 33; 3:39) So how many women would be with 600,000 men? How many children would there be in a typical Jewish family at that time? If all the men had one wife, that would make 1,200,000 adults. If each of the 600,000 families also had three young children with them, that would be 1,800,000 children. Of course, many Jewish families would have had more than three children. However, by the time of the Exodus, many of these children would be adults!
We can see that it gets very difficult to estimate how many Jews in total. If we take the arbitrary figure of 3 children accompanying each family, then, by adding all the children to all the adults we get 3,000,000 people, i.e. Jews that came out with Moses. In addition, though not asked in the question, there were many non-Jews who also came out of Egypt with the Jews, See Exodus 12:38.
Why did Moses have to go to Midian?
He was returning them to their home, temporarily. Rashi (Torah commentator) quotes the Sages' midrash, that since the Jews at that point were still in slavery, he didn't want his wife and sons to be subjected to that.
What did Moses do after he fled Egypt?
The Bible tells us that 600,000 fighting men were among the Israelites who left Egypt, that they took much of Egypt's precious metals, 'borrowed' from their masters, and that an entire army of Egyptians was destroyed in pursuit of the Israelites. Having lost so much of its productive capacity, military power and wealth, Egypt should have faced enormous economic and social strains. Yet, the detailed records available to us for the centuries before and after the time of the Exodus show Egypt continuing to enjoy a period a unprecedented prosperity and in full control of Palestine as the occupying power until around 1200 BCE.
Some claim that the Ipuwer Papyrus is evidence of the problems portrayed in Exodus, most notably because of its statement that "the river is blood" and its frequent references to servants running away, but the Ipuwer Papyrus is far too early, having been written no earlier than the late Twelfth Dynasty (c.1991-1803 BCE). The arguments ignore the many points on which Ipuwercontradicts Exodus, including that its Asiatics are arriving in Egypt rather than leaving.
On the best information available, nothing of note happened to Egypt following the Exodus. In fact, Israel Finkelstein says that over 90 per cent of scholars believe there never was an Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible.
Why did moses strike the rock?
Moses took time on Mount , where he went to meet god and to receive the ten comandments . Then the Jews got restless and using the gold stolen from the Egyptians they made a idol of the golden carf, by melting the gold.But when Moses did come down he was very angry at Aron and the rest of the Jews , in anger he smashed the two stones.
Why did the Israelites trust God?
Abraham (originally Abram) grew up in the city of Ur, when Nimrod's dictatorial idolatrous cult was at its height. Jewish tradition states that he did not blindly accept everything he was indoctrinated with, even though threats were used. Rather, he contemplated the likelihood, morality and logic of the ubiquitous idolatry; and, after a lot of thought he arrived at the conclusion that there must be One God. Later in life, he located elders (Shem and a couple of others) who had never fallen for the idolatry, and they confirmed his realizations.
In Exodus chapter 6 verse 20 it says Amram was his father.
Additionally
Exodus 2:1 only says a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman who gave birth to Moses so it is just as likely that Amram was a grandfather or great-grandfather of Moses because the genealogy lists in the scripture often skip generations including only the "great" ancestors and skip many of the "lesser" ancestors. Biblical scholars have argued back and forth on these issues.
