The love between Moses and Jethro didn’t seem to have a happy ending. But G-d has the last word, and the two men will play out the final act when the Messiah arrives and the sad times are over ...

Thus, when Jethro came to take refuge under the wings of the Shechinah, Moses went out of his way to welcome him with warmth and love. The entire nation followed suit, embracing and honoring him ...

To do so, he journeyed to the wilderness along with his daughter, Zipporah, Moses’ wife, and their children, Gershom and Eliezer. Upon Jethro’s arrival, Moses expressed his love for his father ...

To be fair, Jethro does not tell Moses that his dispensation of justice is wrong. He just tells him that it is inefficient, enervating, and, while absolutely just, too undemocratic to succeed.

Jethro advising Moses, Jan van Bronchorst, 1659. (Wikimedia Commons) You are at the height of your powers, you have just redeemed a nation of slaves and transformed them into a new power feared ...

“And Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel, His people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt” (Exodus 18:1). This ...