Here Is Your Own
When the baby would not nurse, Pharaoh's daughter handed him to a Hebrew nurse with words that were truer than she knew.
Pharaoh's daughter brought the baby to one Egyptian woman after another, and he would not nurse from any of them. Chazal explain that the mouth that would one day speak with the Shechinah would not take in what was impure.
His sister came forward and asked: Shall I go and call you a nurse from among the Hebrew women, to nurse the child for you? Pharaoh's daughter answered, Go. The Gemara says the girl went with the speed of a grown young woman, and another opinion adds that she kept her words hidden, never revealing whom she was about to bring.
She came back with the child's own mother. Pharaoh's daughter said to her: Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages. Rebbi Chama bar Chanina hears a hidden message in her first word, heilichi, take. Read as two words, it means here is what is yours. Pharaoh's daughter was prophesying, and she did not know what she was saying.
Rebbi Chama adds another lesson from the same verse. Hashem does not only return to the righteous what they lost; He gives them a reward as well. The mother who had set her son among the reeds took him home again, nursed him in safety, and was paid wages for it by Pharaoh's daughter.
Source: Shemos 2:7–9; Gemara, Sotah 12b; Midrash Shemos Rabbah 1:25; Rashi on Shemos 2:7 and 2:9. English: The William Davidson Talmud (Koren–Steinsaltz); The Sefaria Midrash Rabbah (2022).
Pharaoh's daughter had every resource of a palace, and she still listened when a young Jewish girl offered a better idea. This week, when someone offers to help with a problem you were handling alone, a neighbor, a younger colleague, one of your children, say yes. Listen to the whole suggestion before deciding. If it works, thank them by name. Accepting help gracefully is its own kindness, and sometimes it brings back to people exactly what belongs to them.