THE PORTION; Heart-to-Heart Talk

From: Forward | Date: January 27, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Fiskin, Jeffrey
Forward
01-27-2006
EXODUS 6:2-9:35

Moishe, a man of indeterminate age in doctor's garb, stands before the
massive statues of a pharaoh's mortuary temple on the west bank at Luxor.
As Amelia Edwards noted at Abu Simbel ("A Thousand Miles Up the Nile"),
there is an instant at dawn as light flushes the temple that transforms the
great stone colossi. "Those awful brethren pass from death to life...."

MOISHE: Good morning.

PHARAOH: Indeed.

MOISHE: How're you doing?

PHARAOH: You're the doctor, Maimonides.

MAIMONIDES: You look terrific. Haven't aged a day.

PHARAOH: You remind me of petitioners ...

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