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Yitro, the priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses, heard everything that God had done to Moses, and to Israel, His people…” (Exodus 18:1)
With these words, at the beginning of this week’s Torah portion, we are re-introduced to Yitro, eponymous father-in-law of Moses, who appears on the scene with Moses’s wife and sons. We are also once again presented with a rare biblical word,