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Q&A: Did Moses Have More Than One Wife? Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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you know mosha rabenu had a whole career before he took the Jews out of misraim think about this mosha Renu took the Jews out of mitzraim when he was 80 years old he left mitzraim after he killed the Egyptian he had to flee to midan and other places uh he was 20 years old meaning there were 60 years from the time he left the time he came back at one point he married seara but the medish doesn't tell us what he did with all of those ears so there actually is I'm sorry the Kish doesn't say there actually are M rashim that give him a whole career he went to Kush he went to Africa Ethiopia he was king of Ethiopia for a long time in fact some say if you remember in the Kish the lanara that miam says about Moshe he took a kite woman now Rashi says that means seora and why is seora called Kushi Kushi normally means like a black African because uh her Deeds were so unique men that as conspicuous as black skin would be as seor is righteousness machines it's a very indirect way to refer to Tora but some say no this is referring to another wife another wife Moshe had earlier in his life who was a kushite woman a kushite woman a woman from Africa presumably a black woman uh and he was King uh did he have children from uh this other wife um I I'm gonna check I don't believe he did but I but I want to check it to be sure and mosha had a whole career which is you know it's a very interesting thing you know when you're 80 years old you know you normally think about retiring right you think okay I've done I've done my life you know now it's time to retire but you see from m aanu you know you never know maybe the whole Tas of your life is going to be towards the end I mean he was King here and King here and a ruler here he actually spent 10 years in prison and he was impr prisoned at various times he had a whole life which the teror does not tell us about by the way that also goes back to my earlier point the teror doesn't tell us about that part of musher's life because there was no particular muser for us in that in that life but he did have according to this he did have another wife and uh and he may have had children although I believe he did not