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"He Will Surely Remember"
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“Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: יהוה, the God of your fathers’ [house]—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said, ‘I have taken note of you and of what is being done to you in Egypt,
Exodus 3:16
At length, Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. God will surely take notice of you and bring you up from this land to the land promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
Genesis 50:24
And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel (Exod. 4:29).
He told them: The Holy One, blessed be He, has said:
I have surely remembered you
(Exod. 3:16). This was a sign that was transmitted to them from the days of Abraham and Isaac. Jacob had transmitted it to Joseph when he told him: “Every redeemer who comes and says to you
I have surely remembered
is a truthful redeemer.” And when Moses came and said
I have surely remembered
, the people believed him forthwith…
Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 24:1
“Go and gather the elders of Israel, and say to them: The Lord, the God of your fathers, God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying: I have remembered you, and what is being done to you in Egypt” (Exodus 3:16).
“Go and gather the elders of Israel.” The elders always uphold Israel, and thus it says: “And all Israel, and its elders, and its officers, and its judges, stood on this side and on that side of the ark” (Joshua 8:33). When is Israel capable of standing? It is when they have elders…
Shemot Rabbah 3:8
פקד פקדתי אתכם, “I have surely remembered you.” The Torah speaks here of two distinct remembrances. One is that Israel is being remembered, the other that the שכינה, which had descended with Yaakov to Egypt and had been exiled and subjected to abuse together with the Jewish people, was also now being “remembered.” The שכינה had been alluded to at the time by the letter ה at the end of the word מצרימה in Genesis 46,4 where G’d had promised to also bring it up again as we have explained there. The שכינה referred to by our sages in that context is none other than the כנסת ישראל which is referred…
Rabbeinu Bahya, Shemot 3:16:1
Rabbi Ḥama said: At twelve years old, Moses our master was torn from his father’s house. Why was it so? It is because had he grown in his father’s home, and come and related these signs to Israel, they would not have believed him. They would have said: Your father passed it to you; as Joseph passed it to Levi, and Levi to Kehat, and Kehat to Amram. That is why he was torn from his father’s home. Therefore, when he went and told Israel all these matters, they believed him, as it is stated: “The people believed” (Exodus 4:31).
Shemot Rabbah 5:2
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