[Avodah] Taking Responsibility

[Liron Kopinsky]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Ilana Sober Elzufon <ilanasober at gmail.com>wrote:

> Rashi, following the midrash, says that he was mitgayer.
>

Interesting, I hadn't thought through the Ger aspect.

Even though he was a Ger, and we are continually instructed not to mistreat
the Gerim "Ki Gerim Heyitem", he was still fully faulted for what happened.
Doesn't this make my argument even stronger? When I was looking I didn't see
any meforshim who commented that Dan were wrong for provoking him either,
which sort of surprised me.

Taking another approach, do we know if this man was actually enslaved in
Egypt? Maybe, since his father was Egyptian, he was excluded. In this case,
maybe the reasons to be nice to him in particular are minimized.
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