The
final question of the week is: When Moshe Rabbeinu comes to Midyan, the
daughters of Yisro say that we were saved from a Mitzri as it says in 2:19 (וַתֹּאמַרְןָ--אִישׁ מִצְרִי, הִצִּילָנוּ מִיַּד הָרֹעִים). There is
a well known Chazal that Moshe Rabbeinu was faulted for looking like a Mitzri (he
was dressed like a Mitzri) and not like a Yid, unlike Yosef when he went down
to Mitzrayim was called (הָעֶבֶד הָעִבְרִי). This is why
Yosef was Zoche to be buried in Eretz Yisrael and Moshe Rabbeinu was not.
There is
a problem with this whole idea. We are told that Moshe Rabbeinu was only 13
years old when he left Mitzrayim and when he came to Yisro he was already 80. In
between the Medrash explains that Moshe Rabbeinu was a Melech in some far away
land. However we explain the 67 years in between, Moshe Rabbeinu was not in the
land of Mitzrayim. Why in the world would he still be wearing his clothes from
Egypt 67 years later? That is difficult to understand.
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