Yitro - 2023

Chevre, this week’s parsha is יִתְרוֹ (Yitro). Yitro is Moshe’s father-in-law. We’ll call Yitro a TAM (Technical Account Manager). He comes to the Israelite camp, looks around and sees Moshe sitting all day being the judge of everthing himself. So he suggests that maybe there is a way to introduce scaling into the judging system (workload) so that Moshe isn’t doing all the heavy undifferentiated heavy lifting himself. The complicated cases (we call these exceptions) will come to him, but the rest can be handled by lower “courts”. What’s interesting is that Moshe is doing this before he has the Torah with all the laws in it. Because next, now that he’s got some spare time, they arrive at Mount Sinai and he goes up and gets the 10 Commandments. Now Moshe has the written law. What is interesting is that for future generations, they don’t need to have a G-d like revelation, go up to the mountain to get the laws. We use what was written in the Torah and passed down in the Oral Torah. Maybe we can call these github, solutions, blogs, youtube (re:Invent, re:Inforce, Summits)  and probably conversations on twitter. Shabbat Shalom