Parsha:

Shemot 

Description

New parents are always filled with excitement and apprehension. This new child, their responsibility, is an amazing disruption... A newborn is demanding, irritating and only during the few hours when he is asleep, adorable. Among us, there has never walked another greater than Moshe Rabeinu himself. And yet, he too was once small and selfish; he too had to "become great." At birth, Moses was just like you and me! The Torah tells us only this about Moshe's youth, "The boy grew up (va'yigdal hayeled) and she (Yocheved) brought him... It happened in those days that Moshe grew up (va'yigdal Moshe) and went out to his brethern... ...Tow pesukim! And in both we are told simply that he "grew up"!