tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post1212586572449115442..comments2024-03-28T21:21:02.777-04:00Comments on Divrei Chaim: more on who gets the credit for the good deedChaim B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02231811394447584320noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-91613285919405410672021-01-07T01:59:34.214-05:002021-01-07T01:59:34.214-05:00-- "a similar idea" (paragraph 1)
the ...-- "a similar idea" (paragraph 1)<br /><br /><br />the two particulars* of the one idea, taken together, express an equation similar to "Yishmael [mother Egyptian]...was spiritually like a chamor" (DC, Sept. 21, '20).<br /><br />or is it another similarity that's in play? this latest Midrash tells us "don't lock the box!"** (DC, Dec. 4, '20) against the ish Mitzri-- the same Egyptian man caught whipping a Hebrew slave, might've been one to rescue the seven Midianite sisters from the shepherds, given the opportunity. maybe he'd have had an eye on one of them (Tziporah?), or on a few; or maybe he'd have wanted to play the hero. "salvation...may come from a completely different direction"...<br /><br /><br />*an Egyptian man, and a braying donkey<br /><br />** 'don't seal the sandy coffin!' [upon the ish Mitzri]alonzo maccabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18381573124258826451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20173285.post-85811846081372338212021-01-06T02:40:47.838-05:002021-01-06T02:40:47.838-05:00a little decryption might be helpful here:
when ...a little decryption might be helpful here:<br /><br /><br />when Yisro was advisor to Paro (alongside Bilam and Iyov), he once suggested that the Egyptian king give his taskmasters regular breaks from their relentless supervisory labors, both to pray, each to his household gods, and to avoid exhaustion (navol tibol). whence Moshe found the Mitzri alone and (seemingly) unobserved, and did kill him (by the Name of G-d, over against the idolatrous murmurs of the ish).<br /><br />thus it was Yisro's own enlightened counsel amid Paro's dark reign -- counsel encrypted in his daughters' report (2:19a) -- that 'caused' the eventual geulah shleimah miMitzrayim...alonzo maccabihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18381573124258826451noreply@blogger.com