For years I've been bothered by the Torah's silence on Avraham's backstory. I recently stumbled upon an answer which caused me to rethink how I learn pshat.
Shalom, Moshe actually gave us the Torah and yet the Torah takes pains to introduce us to him by way of his resume to ostensibly show us why he was chosen to lead us, as he cared strongly about and was willing to take a stand for justice, namely: 1) defends persecuted israelite from egyptian taskmaster 2) intervenes to protect israelite from being assaulted by fellow israelite 3) helps defenseless daughters of Yisro from having the water theyd drawn stolen from them. (I get that one can make the argument that Moshe was in the palace for his formative years and then in midyan and potentially wasnt that well known to the people vs Avram but that seems like a stretch.) All the best
Best answer I have heard for that question!
Thank you! And thanks for reading!
Shalom, Moshe actually gave us the Torah and yet the Torah takes pains to introduce us to him by way of his resume to ostensibly show us why he was chosen to lead us, as he cared strongly about and was willing to take a stand for justice, namely: 1) defends persecuted israelite from egyptian taskmaster 2) intervenes to protect israelite from being assaulted by fellow israelite 3) helps defenseless daughters of Yisro from having the water theyd drawn stolen from them. (I get that one can make the argument that Moshe was in the palace for his formative years and then in midyan and potentially wasnt that well known to the people vs Avram but that seems like a stretch.) All the best
[1] for more on this topic, see my article entitled Shemos: Seventy Souls and Seventy Perspectives
You left this article in a private page. Could please share the public link, thank you!
Sorry, my mistake! See if it works now.