In yesterday’s post (“Identifying the True Redeemer”), we discussed how according to the Rabbis, Moshe was identified as the true redeemer of the Jewish people by invoking a code phrase, “Pakod Pakadeti” that had been handed down from the times of Avraham, and which Serach b. Asher was able to corroborate. I surmised that her having had the merit to be the first to inform Yaakov of Yosef’s presence in Egypt entitled her to be the keeper of the secret upon whom the elders of the Jewish people relied.
The Rabbis also assert that Serach played a role in two other significant events, one contemporary with and paralleling her earlier involvement with Moshe and the Exodus from Egypt, and the other taking place a long time afterwards.
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