[Avodah] Pesel Micah/Shoftim/Yam Suf

[Mordechai Goldstein]

>He was the same Mikhah as Pesel Mikhah in Shofetim.

>So, it's not a "new thing", but rather a new instance of an old thing.
>But I never heard of an actual pesel crossing the Yam Suf.

>Tir'u baTov!
>-Micha

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I found two citations below, but for some reason I thought I saw it in Rashi
in the parsha itself.

www.shemayisrael.co.il/parsha/chrysler/archives/devarim66.htm

In both the first and the second Beis-Hamikdash, the prediction that they would be destroyed was made long before the Churban actually took place. The people may have refused to read the writing on the wall, but it was there for all to see. G-d's decision to destroy the first Beis-Hamikdash was made when King Menasheh (one of the worst kings in Jewish history) placed an image in the Heichal, not long after his ascent to the throne in 3240 (almost a hundred years before the Churban actually took place). According to the Seider ha'Doros, this image was none other than Pesel Michah, which had already been around when Yisrael crossed the Yam-Suf, and had lasted right until now.


Sanhedrin 103b

(c) (R. Yochanan): "V'Avar ba'Yam Tzarah" - Michah took (Gra - had a spiritual defect which would later cause him to make) an idol through the Yam Suf (Alternatively - he took a plate with Hash-m's name (which Moshe had used to raise Yosef's coffin from the bottom of the Nile) which he would later use to make the Egel.)


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