Pharaoh's Daughter Was Healed When She Lifted the Crying Child

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 166:6

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"And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe at the river" (Exodus 2:5): for she was afflicted with severe skin afflictions, and she could not bathe in hot water, so she went down to bathe in the river. And she saw the boy weeping, and she stretched out her hand and took hold of him, and she was healed, and she kept him alive. And she said, This boy is righteous, and whoever sustains a single soul, it is as though he sustained an entire world. Therefore she merited the life of the World to Come.

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