Being Batyah, who or what is Batyah? The Egyptian Princess who was the surrogate Mother of Moishe, Moses's Mother when she bent down into the rushing turbulence of the River Nile to scoop up the baby Moses into her loving arms when she saw him precariously floating in the deepness of dangerous waters. Becoming a Mother by choice, becoming the Mother of Moses by choice. A Princess of Egyptian lineage taking on the nurturing of a Hebrew baby, one she sees who is about to drown, helping the baby and taking him on as her own.
Bat meaning "Daughter of" and Yah meaning "G-d." The Yah being the feminine Hebrew word meaning G-d. A "Daughter of G-d" who saved Moses's life when he was a baby, to raise him in an Egyptian royal household to become the greatest of all Prophets who spoke directly word to word with The Almighty One G-d with the purpose of freeing the Jews from slavery, raising the Jews to their status from slaves to being The Chosen.
Hebrew slaves who knew the ugliness and persecution of being slaves, and becoming the one Chosen group of people to be the followers of the One True G-d. To be in the world to enlighten people who are living in darkness, to show people the difference between evil and good.
To awaken every morning with the Shema on one's lips, to see sunlight however scarce as it flows through your bedroom window and to be thankful and to praise G-d for even the smallest amount. To not be in a prison that has no windows, to see Light and to embrace it. To see this even smallest amount of Light as a miracle given to you directly from G-d. This Light being a gift to tell you straight from the lips of G-d Himself that you are embraced in goodness and that your path as an Israelite is one of righteousness.
To rejoice in the Light and to call it your own, to have ownership of Light, and therefore goodness, and to have it forever.
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