In addition to her given name, the Torah she-bi-khetav: Lit. Epstein-Melamed], p. 6; BT Suspected adulteressSotah 12a; Pesikta Rabbati 43). When Moses was about to die, he addressed God and begged for his life. One of the explanations of this discrepancy is that Jochebed completed the number seventy; she was not included in the list because she was still in her mother’s womb (Gen. Rabbah 94:9). Rabbi (Judah ha-Nasi) would sit and expound, and the public was drowsing. Born shortly after the decree to th… Consequently, Miriam came and offered to the daughter of Pharaoh her mother Jochebed, who was “a Hebrew” (Ex. 2:2) “how good [tov] he was.” The Rabbis ask what Jochebed saw that was special in her son, on account of which she sought to save him from Pharaoh’s death decree. She told them of how Pharaoh’s daughter found him and how she was hired to nurse him. Jochebed gave her son for Israel. In all three explanations, Jochebed immediately comprehended that her son was meant for greatness and she discerned that he possessed unique spiritual qualities. Rabbah 1:16). Moses was a Hebrew (Jewish) child who was adopted by Pharoah's daughter and raised as an Egyptian. Later, when Moses has begun to inquire into his true origins, she reproaches Moses for his Egyptian ideology and his belonging to a religion that worships idols. Lieberman], pp. But after Joseph died, there arose a Pharaoh who did not know Joseph, and Israel’s welcome grew cold. In the Rabbinic exegesis, Jochebed was already pregnant with Moses before Amram divorced her, and the fetus in her womb was three months old when he remarried her. According to one opinion, she realized that he was suited to be a prophet; according to another, she saw that he was born circumcised; and according to a third exegetical suggestion, she saw that the entire house was filled with light (BT Sotah 12a). The woman conceived and bore a son,” since she conceived before this second marriage? Because she was the sister of Kohath, who lived for 133 years, she could have lived the same number of years and died five years after the Exodus of Israel. When Moses got too big to hide and his crying became too loud to muffle, Jochebed made a plan. Pharaoh decreed only for this world, but you decreed both for this world and the next [a baby that was born and died as a result of Pharaoh’s decree would merit the World to Come, but an unborn child would not attain this]. 2:7, BT Suspected adulteressSotah 12b). The regimen of rituals, songs and textual readings performed in a specific order on the first two nights (in Israel, on the first night) of Passover. Jochebed enjoyed longevity, living to witness the positions of leadership held by her children, and was even one of the Israelites who entered the land of Canaan. Jochebed was the daughter of a Levi man and born in Egypt. The 69 total is not 70 since JOSEPH was already in Egypt. Duh. But among all the poor Hebrew slaves, there was one couple who … A compilation of the commentary and discussions of the amora'im on the Mishnah. The question of Jochebed’s kinship to Amram arises from the statement in Ex. 6:20: “Amram took to wife his father’s sister Jochebed.” Amram was the son of Kohath and the grandson of Levi, while Jochebed was the daughter of Levi, and therefore his aunt. 1:17 relates that “the midwives, fearing God, let the boys live”; their reward for fearing God, according to the A type of non-halakhic literary activitiy of the Rabbis for interpreting non-legal material according to special principles of interpretation (hermeneutical rules).midrash, is Torah: because Jochebed feared the Lord, she gave birth to Moses, through whom the Torah was given (Ex. 20 March 2009. The Bible; the Pentateuch; Tanakh (the Pentateuch, Prophets and Hagiographia)Torah seemingly chose to concentrate on the birth of Israel’s deliverer, and therefore did not mention his two elder siblings. Rabbah [ed. This exegesis teaches of Jochebed’s longevity, and that she was still alive when Moses died. According to one midrashic view, Shiphrah and Puah were mother and daughter— Jochebed and Miriam, while another states that they were daughter-in-law and mother-in-law—Jochebed and Elisheba daughter of Amminadab. The Rabbis identify Jochebed with Shiphrah, one of the two Hebrew midwives (Shiphrah and Puah) who delivered the children of the Israelites during the Egyptian servitude. The Rabbis deduced from this that righteous women are not subject to the decree passed on Eve (that is, the curse of “in pain shall you bear children” [Gen. 3:16] does not apply to them) (BT Suspected adulteressSotah 12a). Jochebed succeeded in concealing Moses for three months (Ex. Jochebed And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him His father’s sister Aaron and Moses . One of Pharaoh’s daughter’s servants went with them to see where they lived. "the written Torah." Accordingly, Prov. Amram married Jochebed for the sake of Heaven. Rabbah 1:15:3). 18:12–14 (BT Sanhedrin 58b). (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV) Numbers 26:59 The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and … When he saw that Pharaoh had decreed that all the boys be cast into the Nile, he proclaimed: “Are we laboring in vain?” (we give birth to sons who will eventually be killed), and so he divorced his wife. 2:1–2 state that he “married a Levite woman. The Bible; the Pentateuch; Tanakh (the Pentateuch, Prophets and Hagiographia)Torah also designates Jochebed as the “daughter of Levi” (Num. 2:3), lining the inside with bitumen, and coating it on the outside with pitch, so that Moses would not smell the bad odor given off by the latter. For the Hebrew midwives, see the entries: “Shiphrah,” “Puah.”. The A type of non-halakhic literary activitiy of the Rabbis for interpreting non-legal material according to special principles of interpretation (hermeneutical rules).midrash describes in detail how she prepared the ark for Moses. It is doubtful whether the decree of the wicked Pharaoh will be fulfilled, but you are righteous, and your decree will undoubtedly be fulfilled.” Amram heeded his daughter, and returned to his wife, whom he remarried in a public celebration with all possible pomp and ceremony: he sat her in a palanquin, Aaron and Miriam danced before her, and the ministering angels proclaimed (Ps. Yet the Biblereveals that Levi and his son and grandson all had very long life spans. With your help, JWA programs and resources can enrich lives, build resilience, and sustain hope for a better world. Moreover, some historical facts provide that he died in the water, which can be the reference to the Exodus of Jews. V. 1 begins with the marriage of Jochebed and Amram, and then the reader is immediately told of Moses’s birth, concealment and rescue. The Pharaoh's daughter gave her consent, and Miriam introduced Jochebed to the princess. "order." Lieberman], pp. Jochebed’s story is one of trust, courage, and faith. The regimen of rituals, songs and textual readings performed in a specific order on the first two nights (in Israel, on the first night) of Passover.Seder Eliyahu Rabbah 29). This female votes 'NO'. The Torah she-bi-khetav: Lit. Jochebed (2 Occurrences) Exodus 6:20 Amram took Jochebed his father's sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years. I. The sage, who wanted to awaken them, said: “A single woman in Egypt gave birth to sixty myriads from a single stomach.” There was a pupil there named R. Ishmael son of R. Yose, who asked him: “Was this really so?” He [Rabbi] replied: “This is Jochebed, who bore Moses, who is deemed the equivalent of sixty myriads of Israel” (Cant. 14:1: “The wisest of women builds her house” is applied to Miriam (A type of non-halakhic literary activitiy of the Rabbis for interpreting non-legal material according to special principles of interpretation (hermeneutical rules).Midrash Proverbs 14:1). 40–41). She chose bulrushes, a soft and flexible material that is capable of withstanding contact with both soft and hard objects. In the Jeffrey Katzenberg animated-cartoon project The Prince of Egypt, Jochebed appears briefly setting Moses adrift, and presumably has long died before Moses meets a defiant Miriam who repeats Jochebed's last lullaby to him, thus triggering in him the memory of his true origin. She is a witless baby.” Still another notion bases its understanding of the name on Job 26:13: “By his wind the heavens were calmed [shifrah].” The verse describes the heavens that were created by God for Israel, and it was Shiphrah who returned Israel to their Father in heaven (Eccl. Aaron, who was the high priest and the father of all the kohanim.Miriam, who was a prophetess, in whose merit the children of Israel had water during the … In all, she simply didn't want her child to die. One of the arguments advanced by Moses was his mother’s suffering. If the Midrash and Aggadah really contain these lies, the 'rabbis' quoted in them wouldn't know the Torah if it bit them. [2] Yet the Cecil B. DeMille movie depicts Joshua as a grown man, and in fact shows him aging but few years during the time that Moses is supposed to be in exile in Midianite country.[3]. So Jochebed and Miriam took the boy home and Jochebed nursed him. Jochebed had FAITH. When she saw that he was a “fine” child, she hid him for three months and when she could do so no longer, she made a basket out of bulrushes and … So GOD DEEDS are what made him significant. Is God a liar or inconsistent, or are the 'sages' liars not to know Hebrew usage of 'dodato'? Trials and difficulties and obstacles come to all of us, but for the moment, we want to look at the example found in the life of Jochebed. 26:59): “The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt.” The A type of non-halakhic literary activitiy of the Rabbis for interpreting non-legal material according to special principles of interpretation (hermeneutical rules).midrash adds that she was conceived on the way to Egypt, and was born between the walls (at the entrance to Egypt). Episode 54: Mamalas: Building Jewish Families. . … The painting "The Mother of Moses" by Simeon Solomon depicts Jochebed and Miriam looking and holding Moses. "the written Torah." In fact, Jochebed is the first in the Bible to be named with yah, a shortened form of YHWH. We wanted to find out whether or not Amram supported Joshebed in her decision to hide Baby Moses. Join our effort today with a contribution to JWA, Encyclopedia Article: Hannah: Midrash and Aggadah, Encyclopedia Article: Bathsheba: Midrash and Aggadah, Copyright © 1998–2021, Jewish Women's Archive. Conservative scholars date the “Exodus,” a landmark in Israel’s history, at 1446 B.C. That same day God swore that the Ark and the Torah would be entrusted to the arms of his descendants (the Kohathites are the only ones who bore the Ark during the journeying in the wilderness, as is attested in Num. cit.). In the famous Cecil B. DeMille movie The Ten Commandments (where she is credited as Yochebel), she is shown setting Moses adrift in his wicker ark, and then as an aging slave who is almost buried alive by entrapment within two heavy monument stones until Moses, while still a prince of Egypt and even a contender for the throne, sets her free (and also pardons Joshua, who had struck an Egyptian overseer to force the Egyptians to stop moving the stone). Jochebed bore Amram three righteous offspring. Jochebed: An Impossible Problem Solver By Glenn Davis. And the mistakes in the article here keep on getting worse, no sense in trying to correct the many incompetences. Each was a prophet, and each served Israel (provided them physical succor): by merit of Moses, the Israelites were given the manna; by merit of Aaron, clouds of glory surrounded the Israelites and protected them during their journeying in the wilderness; and by merit of Miriam, the well accompanied them wherever they went. (Exodus 2:1-10 ), Miriam was thus old enough to walk and even to speak. This sequence omits a lengthy period of time, for Jochebed and Amram already had two other children (Aaron and Miriam) when Moses was born. When not specified, "Talmud" refers to the Babylonian Talmud.Talmud discusses this relationship in the context of the incest prohibitions in Lev. And if all the male children were murdered, it would of course only be a generation or two until as a nation they would be wiped out completely. The mother of Miriam, Aaron and Moses. Wow, there are so many anti-Bible errors in this report it's not funny. The Bible laud’s Jochebed, Moses’ mother for her faith. As the years passed by, Jochebed invested into her boy. BELIEF so strong, Jacob enters Egypt knowing he's committing his family to slavery and they all STAY there, knowing that future? Of the many unusual things about the life of Moses, the one that is rarely mentioned is the fact that the Bible covers his complete bio from birth to death. Jochebed Did Not Waste Her Motherhood. We read about it in Exodus 1 and 2. She caulked it with “bitumen and pitch” (Ex. The Catholics copied these lies about Jochebed (though maybe she really was old when bearing Moses, am tracing that now in the Hebrew), to make a competing Virgin Mary, equally false and equally demeaning against women. Rabbah [ed. teaches that Jochebed put the ark in a protected place, where bushes and reeds grew. 1620 BC–1487 BC) was the daughter of Levi, wife of Amram, and mother of Miriam, Aaron, and Moses. Jochebed was desperate to … Pharaoh had commanded the Hebrews to throw all the baby boys in the Nile River (Exodus 1:22), so, in her own way, Jochebed obeyed. This was the year that the reigning Pharaoh decreed that every male Hebrew child be thrown into the Nile River. Still later, Ramses II sends Moses into exile, but first gives him a Levite cloak (red with alternating black and white stripes) that, he says, Jochebed sent to him before she died. This is corroborated by another early A type of non-halakhic literary activitiy of the Rabbis for interpreting non-legal material according to special principles of interpretation (hermeneutical rules).midrash, that states that Jochebed was one of the offspring of Jacob who went down to Egypt and was also among those who entered the land of Canaan (Lit. That Jochebed could still be bearing children at the age of forty-eight might seem unlikely by modern standards. Jochebed’s name means “honor or glory of God,” and she certainly honored God with her life and with her faith. Rabbah 1:25; for the identification of Jochebed with Shiphrah, see above). A compilation of the commentary and discussions of the. Fearing Israel’s might, Egypt sought to cripple the growing nation. 3:31) (Lit. According to these sources, Jochebed might have been Amram’s cousin. She was not trying to escape her calling or evade her responsibility. The latest date that Jochebed could have been born was 2385 AM (1620 BC), the year her father died. The Rabbis resolve this abbreviated chronology by stating that Jochebed and Amram divorced, and Ex. An additional midrashic explanation of her name is that she smoothed over (shiprah) her daughter Puah’s words. That's far more praiseworthy than little mitzwot people invent. When Moses was born, Jochebed saw (Ex. Kadari, Tamar. Why was Moses put in a basket? The latest date that Jochebed could have been born was 2385 AM (1620 BC), the year her father died. Rabbah loc. Amram and Jochebed Did NOT Fear the King of Egypt. Jochebed nursed Moses for twenty-four months (Ex. … The story of Jochebed was used by Rabbi (R. Judah ha-Nasi) to divert his audience when they became sleepy. Jochebed married her nephew Amram, a grandson of her father. So she took a wicker basket and covered it with tar and pitch. Jochebed's younger son Moses was born in 2433 AM (1571 BC), about forty-eight years after the death of Jochebed's father Levi (1620 BC). In the midrashic exegesis, the Egyptians counted the months of her pregnancy only from her return to Amram; they did not know that she was already in the third month (see above), and so Moses could be hidden in his parents’ home until he had had time to grow and develop. There is also little question that Jochebed should get a lot of credit for everything Moses did. Ex. Although the Torah asserts that Jacob’s household who came to Egypt numbered seventy souls, the Rabbis noted that only sixty-nine individuals are listed in Gen. 46. "teaching," "study," or "learning." 2:1 portrays their remarriage. Jochebed was the youngest member of the seventy souls that made up Jacob's household. Waiting for Breakthrough – Elizabeth’s story. According to this tradition, Amram was the leading scholar of the generation. 40–41). Yet another tradition explains that she shiprah her actions before God (i.e., performed good deeds, that were pleasing to the Lord). My mother Jochebed’s teeth were blunted by [the death of] two of her children in her lifetime; will more of her teeth be blunted by my death?” But this argument, too, was of no avail (Deut. The Bible gives no specific date for the death of Jochebed. The Rabbis say that when the daughter of Pharaoh asked of Jochebed: “Take [helikhi] this child and nurse it for me” (Ex. Jochebed was given the name “Shiphrah” because she would cleanse (meshaperet) the newborn, by washing it and cleaning it after birth; another etymological explanation is that, by merit of her deeds, the Israelites were fruitful [she-paru] and multiplied in her time (Sifrei on Numbers, para. All Israel saw this, and in consequence they also divorced their wives. . She and her husband, Amram lived around 1571BC to 1613BC or 2,433 years after Creation. Floyd Nolen Jones calculates that if Joshua died twenty years after the ending of the seven years of warfare in the Promised Land, as Flavius Josephus states, then he must have been born no earlier than 1534 BC, or no more than three years before Moses' exile. 5:8. Jochebed may not have known all that Moses would ultimately mean to God's plan, but she did realize that he was a gift from God and she loved him and would protect him at all costs. The princess then hired Jochebed to nurse her own son. 2:2). That Jochebed could still be bearing children at the age of forty-eight might seem unlikely by modern standards. The wording “she placed it among the reeds” (ibid.) The Lit. The latter had spoken impudently to Pharaoh, who sought to kill her in his anger. She is only mentioned twice by name in Scripture, but she is the mother of Miriam, Aaron and Moses. "order." Pharaoh only decreed against the males, but you have decreed against both the males and the females [since all the Israelites withdrew from their wives, neither sons nor daughters would come into the world]. Jochebed was able to use her amazing creativity and courage to solve an impossible problem. He died for you!) Jochebed's encounter with Moses and Joshua together could not have occurred in real life, however. Rabbah 7:3; Ex. She gladly poured into her children – including Moses as she was paid a salary for caring for her son. She took leave of her baby with a heavy heart, and tried with all her might to protect him and ensure that he remain alive. 2385 AM–2518 AM) (ca. Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. "order." Jochebed is most known as the mother of Moses. The narrative of her pregnancy with Moses is amusingly incorporated in an exegesis relating to the time of the Rabbis. Instead of drowning the child, she kept it for herself and gave it the name of Moses, which means "drawn out. Help us elevate the voices of Jewish women. II. Very few have that distinction: Samson, Samuel, John the Baptist and Jesus to name a few. Added to this, Moses was never sentenced to exile. Yet the Bible reveals that Levi and his son and grandson all had very long life spans. If Amram’s and Jochebed’s heroic efforts to save Moses were discovered and reported, Pharoah could have had the whole family executed as an example to deter Israelites from disobeying his commands. Your site also helped us research the background information concerning Amram and Joshebed's marriage. Rabbah 1:25). She gathered all the supplies and surreptitiously made a little “ark” (the same Hebrew word as in Noah’s ark). Doesn't anyone check the use of Hebrew words before pontificating a lie which would make Moses the first breaker of the Mosaic law? All Israel saw this, and they, too, remarried their wives (Mekhilta de-Rabbi Simeon bar Yohai [ed. Miriam, who was six years old at the time, said: “Father, father, your decree is harsher than that of Pharaoh. The Pharaoh had decreed that all Jewish male infants must die after birth. 2). "the written Torah." Exodus 6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years. The Pharaoh's daughter was bathing in the Nile, when one of her maids saw the basket and brought it to her. In the long run, he delivers his people, the Jews, from enslavement in Egypt. That Jochebed could still be bearing children at the age of forty-eight might seem unlikely by modern standards. Jochebed's younger son Moses was born in 2433 AM (1571 BC), about forty-eight years after the death of Jochebed's father Levi (1620 BC). My mother Jochebed’s teeth were blunted by [the death of] two of her children in her lifetime; will more of her teeth be blunted by my death?” But this argument, too, was of no avail (Deut. The conditions described in the first two chapters of Exodus indicate that indeed those were dark days for the Children of Israel. There was once a woman in Egypt, he told them, who gave birth to 600,000 children at once; on being asked who that woman was, he said she was Jochebed, whose son Moses was worth 600,000 Israelites (Cant. For 430 years, Israelites lived in Egypt, at first in comfort because the “vice president” of the country was their relative Joseph. Yes, Levi's youngest daughter he had in old age, but long AFTER he entered Egypt. The A type of non-halakhic literary activitiy of the Rabbis for interpreting non-legal material according to special principles of interpretation (hermeneutical rules).midrash portrays Jochebed as a wise woman who was righteous and God-fearing. After three months Jochebed was forced to obey the decree of Pharaoh. Our monthly sisterhood discussion of Joshebed , Mother of Moses peaked our interests and led to questions and a discussion that made us pursue more information about Amram's thoughts concerning the Pharoah's decree. The Exodus account focuses on the part of Jochebed because it was she, undoubtedly, along with Miriam, who actually carried out the casting of Moses on the Nile. A number of miracles were performed for Jochebed in connection with the birth of Moses: she bore him at the age of one hundred and thirty, and God restored her youth and her beauty. The midrash apparently understands “builds her house” in a broad sense, because Jochebed’s wisdom in the raising of her own children led to the building and firm establishment of the entire people of Israel. Everything looked hopeless for the Hebrew slaves. 78). Rabbah 1:26). So the 'sages' can't count, either. Jochebed was the mother of Moses, one of the major characters in the Old Testament.Her appearance is short and we are not told much about her, but one trait stands out: trust in God.Her hometown was probably Goshen, in the land of Egypt. Later she returned with clothing and crib for the child. But Egypt’s efforts were in vain; God was with His people, and He was preparing to bring Israel out of the land. Lit. “Pharaoh orders every able-bodied man to report for work duty immediately,” a […] The neighbors were surprised to see Jochebed with a baby. The Masoretic Text states that Jochebed was Amram's father's sister. The Masoretic Text states that Jochebed was Amram's father's sister. Though this project also is flawed, its portrait of Jochebed is consistent with the Biblical narrative. More is here: http://brainout.net/MisTrans.h... . Jewish Women's Archive. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. He is, nevertheless, faithful to his roots. She brought him to all the Egyptian women, but Moses was not willing to nurse from any of them. The Torah she-bi-khetav: Lit. R. iv. In the book of Exodus, he is left in a basket in a clump of reeds (bulrushes), but he is never abandoned. 5:15 – He died for all! Yet the Biblereveals that Levi and his son and grandson all had very long life spans. Some of you have lost children to divorce, some have run-away, and some have even died. Rather, the then-reigning Pharaoh signed his death warrant and Moses had to flee like the wanted man that he was. Shiphrah placated him, saying: “Do you pay attention to such a one as her? By merit of her good deeds, she gave birth to the three leaders of the Exodus generation: Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. Heb 11:23 …they were not afraid of the king’s command. Rather, this verse teaches that Jochebed’s pregnancy was without suffering, just as she gave birth without pain. In fact, when Jesus came and died for our sins at Calvary, that was the greatest expression of love the world would ever see, Rom. The regimen of rituals, songs and textual readings performed in a specific order on the first two nights (in Israel, on the first night) of Passover.Seder Olam Rabbah 9). Jochebed appears in at least two motion picture projects depicting the life of Moses and the oppression and Exodus of Israel. 2:9), she unwittingly prophesied: the word “helikhi” concealed the truth—“shelikhi hu [he is yours].” Pharaoh’s daughter promised Jochebed (ibid. Though the Bible gives no specific date for Miriam's birth, Ussher suggests that it took place in 2422 AM, eleven years before the birth of Moses.[1]. In the Rabbinic retelling, when Amram returned his wife, Jochebed was a hundred and thirty years of age, but signs of youth appeared on her: her body became smoother, her wrinkles were straightened out, and her former beauty was restored. "Jochebed: Midrash and Aggadah." "teaching," "study," or "learning." If so, then why does Ex. Jochebed’s story is the third part of our eight-week Bible study – Ordinary Parents with Extraordinary Faith. The Bible; the Pentateuch; Tanakh (the Pentateuch, Prophets and Hagiographia)Torah relates that the midwives did not fulfill Pharaoh’s command because they feared God, who rewarded them for their actions: “He established households [battim] for them” (Ex. 1:21), which the Rabbis understand as priestly and Levitical households, or as royal households. Moses said: The mouth that will speak with God will not nurse something impure [the milk of non-Jews]. In the midrashic account, the daughter of Pharaoh saw that Moses was hungry when she drew him from the river. It is interesting that Scripture tells us three times in Exodus 2:2, Acts 7:20 and Hebrews 11:23 that "she saw that he was a goodly child." 2 tells of the birth of Moses. Lit. . In 2433 AM, Jochebed gave birth to Moses. cit.). Ex. 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