Examples of using Yitro in English and their translations into Hebrew
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Parshat Yitro.
Yitro just didn't hear.
Parashat Yitro.
What drove Yitro to join the Jewish people?
There are other commentators and midrashim that present Yitro in a negative light.
In parashat Yitro there is no hint of such a long stay.
We understand from this that in the portion Yitro, the Creator brings us close to Him.
Yitro proposes that Moshe share the burden of leadership with others.
According to the Midrash, Yitro had tried every form of idolatry of his time.
So, we ask the question- what story does Moses tell Yitro that he doesn't know?
In any case, Yitro has no source of authority for commanding the judges.
The text provides no explicit answer, butwe may have an inkling from the other model that is presented by Yitro.
Yitro never becomes Moshe but Moshe and Israel benefit from Yitro's judgment and advice.
Because we have mentioned above the evil done by Amalek to Israel,here we mention the contrasting good that Yitro did for Israel.
As is well known, Yitro suggests the appointment of officers and judges who will help Moshe in this task.
The decision to appoint judgesis described in the book of Shemot as an initiative of Yitro, whereas it is described as Moshe's idea in the book of Devarim.
Yitro was a great man, however, our“diligent man,” Moshe, aspired to stand only before the most powerful, the King.
Be open to critique and criticism even if it seems unwarranted, and like Yitro seek to find the truth in the words the universe is sending.
Yitro knew that even though he was spiritual, if he saw an opportunity to push himself more to grow, he had to grab it.
Hence, we may explain that the Torah tells us about Yitro specifically prior to the Revelation at Sinai, in order to teach us that Yitro's path to faith, too, is legitimate.
Because Yitro knows the story before he comes to Moses, and Moses knows that Yitro knows the story before he comes.
It is precisely for this reason that Yitro appears- so as to teach that the Torah was given to the nation, but also to every individual.
And Yitro pushes himself to hear it from Moses, saying,“… I will hear this story from the most elevated soul in the generation today.”.
Having arrived at his new beliefs by judicial and rational analysis, Yitro then applies that same method in advising his son-in-law Moshe as to the formulation and efficient operation of the Jewish judicial system in the desert.
Moreover, had Yitro come purely for personal reasons, it is not clear why the Torah would have deemed it noteworthy enough to share this story.
The importance of the story of Yitro and its location lie in the broadening of the conditions for acceptance of an individual or family into the"chosen people.".
And therefore, Yitro comes to Moses, not because he wasn't spiritual, not because he wasn't working on himself, and not because he wasn't using the tools, but because he knew what most of us don't really know: there is an opportunity here for growth.
Despite knowing that later on, Yitro's descendants willlive alongside the Jewish nation in the Land of Israel, we will not meet Yitro himself again.
In the story of Yitro, we learn that the Jewish nation's judicial system was set up under the advisement of an external source, a non-Jew, someone not part of the nation.
But Yitro knew if you don't grab every single opportunity that presents itself to you, no matter what lack of comfort it is going to bring, no matter what you have to leave behind for it, you will never come to know the darkness or negativity within you that needs to be cleansed or removed.