Code Names

0:00We know that the names of the midwives, the way the Torah records it, is Shifra and Pua. And those names are code names for what we would call like a nanny. Shifra is that she dresses the baby, Pua. She proposed the baby. And the question is here that we told the measure says that you have it a Miriam. The two of the one is a prophetess, a matriarch, so to speak, of the Jewish people. Why is it that they're listed by their code name? Why is it not by their names themselves? There's someone there that attributes that they have. So Shmozowski says, as follows, he says, because at the end of the day, a person has to know what their most important characteristic is. And the most important characteristic of your heaven, of Miriam was the fact that they mothered Amiyah. And therefore, it's again a great message for all of us. Like you have to do many, many things. We wear many, many hats, but we have to know what is our basic most important characteristic,

1:04and not to lose sight of that, especially in light. You know, we have a society that frame is everything. Fortune second, that somewhere down the line is a good name. No, no, we realize is our fundamentals of who we are, our essence. That's really what has to be, what identifies us, and everything else is secondary. Have a great, great week.