An Advocate at Midnight
When the firstborn of Egypt died, the princess who had saved Moshe was saved through him.
Many years after she drew Moshe from the river, he returned to Egypt as Hashem's messenger, and the plagues began to fall on her father's land. At last came the night of the tenth plague. At midnight Hashem struck every firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh on his throne to the firstborn of the captive in the dungeon, and a great cry rose up, for there was no house without its dead.
The Midrash teaches that the plague reached the firstborn daughters of Egypt as well. Only one was spared: Bisya, the daughter of Pharaoh. A good advocate was found for her, the Midrash says, and that advocate was Moshe, of whom it is written at his birth that his mother saw he was good.
The Midrash applies to her the words of Shlomo HaMelech in Eishes Chayil: she sees that her merchandise is good; her lamp does not go out at night. Long before, in the reeds of the Nile, she had seen that this child was worth saving. On the night that her own house was struck, that kindness came back to stand guard over her.
Source: Shemos 12:29–30; Midrash Shemos Rabbah 18:3 (on Mishlei 31:18 and Shemos 2:2). English: The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022).
Basya saw goodness in a crying baby that everyone else was ordered to destroy, and years later that goodness stood up for her. This week, choose one person in your life whose good others overlook: a struggling student, a difficult relative, a new employee. Tell them one specific thing you see in them, and do one concrete thing to help it grow, such as a recommendation, a lesson, or simply your time. You may never see the return. Do it anyway.