- Upon departing who (actually) is the pathfinder?
- Instead of a circuitous route, why would God not treat the “Plishtim” as the Egyptians?
- Why the phrase “when they see battle”; why not “when they fight”?
- What route, then, do B’nai Yisrael follow?
- Is it incumbent upon the leader to fulfill a promise made not by him and many decades ago — however difficult the fulfillment? (Exodus 13:19)
- Did B’nai Yisrael have any inkling in advance of the two “guiding signs” which would lead them?
- Are these signs intended, in addition to leading, to quiet two major fears: i.e. darkness and directionality?
- Does Exodus 13 (seem to) convey the thesis that freedom from bondage does not have, as a concomitant, that slaves immediately act as free men (i.e. taking people out of slavery still requires taking slavery out of the people and that takes time)?
- Is the objective of leaving Egypt only to “get out” or is it a condition precedent to the actual purpose — to go to?
- In essence, who is the leader of B’nai Yisrael — Moses? Aaron? or …?
- The actual departure was not planned; is the unexpected and the rushed and the disorganized always “problematical” or, on occasion, justified by circumstance?
