Staying a Stranger

Moshe called his first son Gershom, indicating he was a stranger in a foreign land. What is the meaningfulness in that?

The kinderlach suggested that he was noting how although he was in a foreign land Hashem still took care of him. Perhaps this itself, that he was able to build a family and have a child despite that he was in a foreign land, was cause to great celebration.

I suggested that he wanted to remember that he was a Jew, and that despite the fact he was living comfortably in Midyan and even built a home and family there, he would always be a stranger in a strange land. He belonged with his brothers.

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