For God’s compassion, to absolve the vow. Moses asks G-d to rather erase his name From the annals of events in the Torah. God listens to Moses, his confidant’s plea; And manifests Divine humility.

Our Torah portion begins with the story of Jethro [a priest of Midian], father-in-law of Moses, who, after hearing about the splitting of the Red Sea and the war against Amalek, decided to join ...