Bamidbar: perek 13
Text module - Part A  
 














  DAY 10

  • DRASH EITZ
    the IYOV option (use OHP)

  • Presentation sequence
  • the 3 non-Jews YITRO / BILAAM / IYOM
  • MIDRASH: Moshe's stuttering problem
  • SEFER IYOV: G-d / Sattan / Tzadik
  • RASHI: opening question in Bereshit re ERETZ CANAAN

    ASSUMPTIONS:
  • - Eretz Yisrael was given to Canaanites termporarily
    - IYOV was a tzadik
    - as such, he provided TZADIK type protection from Canaanite enemies (Bnei Yisrael)
    - MOSHEH needed to know whether IYOV was still alive

  • ETZ is the metaphor for IYOV
  • Be prepared:
    If presented correctly This MIDRASHIC option will stupefy the class and students will question how otherwise logical people [ Chazzal and Rashi et al ] could even consider such a flimsy explanation.

    The agenda could then turn to the parameters under which MIDRASH functions.

    The problem was duly acknowledged and left for a discussion at some time in the future.
   
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