In Humash, the students are grappling with the command that Pharaoh gave the midwives to kill all the baby boys. A neat grammatical phrase opens the text up for interpretation: the Torah could be telling us that the midwives were Jews or that they were Egyptian.
We are currently trying to figure out if it matters, and if/why people will naturally look outside of their religion/nationality to help others.
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