Pemikiran Yahudi Keluaran 18:12: Akeidat Yitzchak

Some problems in the text of the chapter. 1) The conjunctive letter vav in chapter 4,44, seems to lack any connection with the previous paragraph. Why is that ? 2) Why does the Torah emphasize that the covenant was entered into with the present generation, not the one who had already died in the desert? If the reason is that the Torah wishes to emphasize that personal experiences provide a more solid bond, and result in a heightened degree of obligation when compared with benefits and obligations based only on tradition, that would give all future generations an excuse to reject the binding nature of the covenant! 3) If in chapter 5,5, G'd is said to have spoken "face to face" to the people, what is the meaning in the following words of "I have stood between you and G'd?" 4) Why recall that Israel had been afraid of the fire, had not climbed the mountain, when they had previously been warned not to approach the mountain? (Exodus 18,12) What is the meaning of "to say" at the end of verse 5? 5) Why is the word shamor used in discussing Sabbath observance instead of zachor as in the first version of the ten commandments? 6) When the people ask Moses to be their intermediary, why do they address him as att, the feminine pronoun? Why, at this point, do the people speak about "we shall hear and we shall do," instead of the famous "we shall do and we shall hear," that we are used to from the book of Exodus several times? 7) Why does G'd ask yira-ah, fear, awe, from the people? Why does He not ask for ahavah, love? The latter would surely be a superior form of worship! 8) Why, in chapter 6,2, is this very yir-ah, fear, awe, represented as being the result of observing mitzvot and not as its prerequisite, its motivation? 9) Mention of the land of Israel flowing with milk and honey does not seem sequential to the observance of the mitzvot? (last verse in the paragraph)