A precious Talmid Chacham asked me this Shabbos about the meaning behind the fact that Batya, daughter of Pharoh married Caleb (Chronicles 4:18). That set me to thinking and this is what I thought up.
As is known, Moshe represents Daas, and through it, the Torah. A recent author (see the file below) suggests, based on and extending the writings of Tsemach Tsedek, that Batya represents "chochmos hahitsoniyos), secular wisdoms. With the birth of Moshe, she descended and immersed in the Nile, purifying herself from the impurities of her father's house (Sotah 12b, see in Gutnick Chumash that washing in the Nile was "mevatel" its idolatrous nature and made it possible for Moshe to be placed into it). Later Moshe marrried Tsipporah, the daughter of Yisro, who explored all wordly wisdoms (it is in regard to this that Tsemach Tsedek points ou that this was a marriage of wordly and divine wisdoms) . I add that according to Midrash Talpiyos, in the name of Zohar, Batya was the twin sister of Tsipporah.
Batya then represents the wordly wisdoms which was a midwife for the Torah to emerge from the womb-waters of idolatry into the world. In it she was assisted by Miriam, who represents the spiritual inheritance of Levi and the patriarchs. According to Chazal (Sotah ibid) Kalev also married Miriam.
From here it is but a short stop to suggesting that Calev married both Miriam and Batya, as Talmud states there in Sotah regarding Miriam, "lshem Shomaim", for the sake of Heaven alone, in order to unify all the wisdoms within the power of Yehuda, the expression and manifestation of the power of Kngship.
This is the file of what the choshuve R. Raphael Y. Rosenman an erudite Breslev Chossid and author wrote on this topic in his Sefer Taam Pesach.
Related, here
B"H Breslov starts with a Beis, like the Tora, after comes chuchmos....
Everyone should say Ani Na Nach Nachmu Nachman Meuman, this starts with an Aleph, just like the ten commandments start with Anochi!
Posted by: Naanaach | February 05, 2009 at 09:24 AM