The question why is the second after what. At first man wants to understand the subject, the figures, the story, the place and the time; only then, he wants to understand why we have the story, why this character and not the other one….

Today we are going to ask the question why about one of the well-known people over this planet, the man that everyone knows how and when he was born, but no one knows where we can find his grave until today- this is off course Moses.

Moses was born according to the Jewish legends as a circumcised person. He was taken by the daughter of Pharaoh to the palace. But the small little kid couldn’t be the prince of Egypt- he became the leader of the people of Israel- the question today is why?

If we will say that Moses was actually Egyptian as some of the commentaries say, so we can say that only a foreigner could take the leadership over this people; if we will say that Moses was Hebrew, there must be a better explanation to this question.

The answer is depend on the profession that Moses had and with one little verse in the book of Exodus 3:1 –

"וּמֹשֶׁה, הָיָה רֹעֶה אֶת-צֹאן יִתְרוֹ חֹתְנוֹ–כֹּהֵן מִדְיָן; וַיִּנְהַג אֶת-הַצֹּאן אַחַר הַמִּדְבָּר…"

"Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the farthest end of the wilderness…"

The answer why here is really simple: the only person that can take the flock in the wilderness could take a people there. There is another story that as a small kid I heard a lot- once upon a time Moses lost one of his sheep; he searched her alone in the wilderness for a long time- The Lord said: if he is taking care of one sheep like this- he could be the leader of my people…

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