Prior knowledge of the order of Torah reading. היכרות מוקדמת עם סדר קריאת התורה.
- GOLDA D' DEBORA
- Apr 19
- 3 min read
Pharaoh Manamatra I Sethi ruled from BC. 1279 BC. to 1290. Among the Israelites he was called Manamerat, the bitter one. His name is even recorded in the “Midrash”. He is the one who forced our people, Israel, to work as slaves without pay. He was the one who ordered the killing of newborn male children of the Israelites, who were thrown into the Nile River. Therefore, the birth of Moses coincides with the first year of the reign of Seti *
At this time, 1290 BC. Queen Tuya, who was the wife of Pharaoh Seti I. That is, Queen Tuya who was the mother of Ramses II and his sister Princess Tia. In addition, Princess Isetnofret and Nefertari Meritmut were the wives of Ramses II.
The ladies of the ruling family, with Queen Tuya and her daughter Tia, went for a walk every day from their Palace to the nearby Nile. There they found on the Nile (on the water, in a wicker basket) the baby Moses. They and Moses' real mother as a nanny, named Yochebed, were the ones who raised Moses in the royal palace.
However, later, in this palace, the baby Moses' cruel ordeal with fire also took place.*
Pharaoh Seti I, and the young II. Ramesses, were curious about whether or not the young Moses would become a power-hungry boy when he grew up.*
*The gist of the story is that little Moses was very much loved in the king's court. Pharaoh Seti took the little boy in his arms to play with him, but the little boy Moses took the crown off Seti's head and put it on his own head. Pharaoh Seti I and his son Ramses II (who ruled the Egyptian people with his father) were very surprised and ordered a test, where two trays were placed in front of the little boy Moses. One tray contained gold, the other contained glowing coals. If baby Moses touched the gold, he would be killed, because his character was one of power. If he touched the burning coals, he would survive, because his character was just playful. *
*During that ordeal, it so happened that little Moses put a burning coal in his mouth with his hand, and then not only his mouth and tongue were burned, but also his hand.
After the ordeal, Queen Tuya, and Moses' biological mother who lived in the palace as a nanny, /Jochebed of the tribe of Levi,/ their sorrow must have been boundless. The poor one-year-old child, who had just begun to learn to walk, suffered eternal wounds.
Moses was injured by in the ordeal and could no longer speak or use his fingers properly. The fact that his hand was burned was omitted from the writing midrash , lest future generations should think that Moses was not the one who wrote the sacred story of the Exodus from Egypt. But as Moses’ speech was assisted by his brother Aaron, the outlines of the writing were refined with pen and ink by a Babylonian scribe named Malki.*
Fortunately, the scientist was the one who knew the science of the Babylonian people very well. The scientist Malki, whose name can be read back in the middle, in the opposite direction of the Hebrew letter Aleph Beit. This man was the one who, from a simple Aramaic language, created a modern language and a very advanced grammatical system, which we still use today, in the Hebrew language.
It is precisely this descriptive grammar that will be presented on the website www.hebrew.agency, which this wonderful man created*
The scientist developed a new writing system. He used the Phoenician alphabet, based on the idea that one sound corresponds to one letter. The old cuneiform script was no longer modern. Making clay tablets was not a viable method in the nomadic lifestyle. Writing on skin, with a feather, gave the opportunity for artistic work.
