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<span>Posted:</span> 09 Feb 2009 05:28 PM CST</p>
<div style="margin:0;font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;"><p>Someone showed me the following idea in the Be’er Yoseif by Rav Yoseif Tzevi Salant.</p>
<blockquote dir="rtl"><p>וַיַּסֵּ֨ב אֱ-לֹהִ֧ים ׀ אֶת־הָעָ֛ם דֶּ֥רֶךְ הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר יַם־ס֑וּף וַֽחֲמֻשִׁ֛ים עָל֥וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">- שמות יג:יח</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">Hashem brought the nation around, via the path of the desert, the Red Sea; and the Children of Israel arose <em>chamushim</em> (to be defined) from the Land of Egypt.</p>
<p>ואסחר ה’ ית עמא אורח מדברא לימא דסוף ומזרזין סליקו בני ישראל מארעא דמצרים:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">- תרגום אונקלות</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">.. and the Jews departed prepared and with haste from the Land of Egypt.</p>
<p>… בעבדא טבא …</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">- תרגום ירושלמי</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">… with good deeds…</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">ואחזר ה’ ית עמא אורח מדברא דימא דסוף וכל חד עם חמשא טפלין סליקו בני ישראל מארעא דמצרים:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">- תרגום יונתן</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">.. and the Jews departed with five infants from the Land of Egypt.</p>
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<p>Rashi defines “<em>chamushim</em> as “armed”, which underlies the Targumim of Unqelus and Yerushalmi. Armed, prepared, in a spiritual sense, with good deeds.</p>
<p>The Be’er Yoseif combines these Targumim. First, it couldn’t be a compliment if the Targum Yonasan simply meant that every Jew left with five children, as the medrash already told us that in Egypt, we were reproducing six at a time. So what does that refer to?</p>
<p>Four fifths of the Jewish people died in Egypt. These were the people who didn’t merit redemption; those who believed in the Egyptian paganism and wanted to stay. What about their children? The youth didn’t merit dying, even if they agreed with their parents — they aren’t accountable or punishable for their crimes.</p>
<p>The Be’er Yoseif explains that this meant that each of the 600,000 men left Egypt with five <strong>families</strong> of children — his own, and those of four families left orphaned by this punishment.</p>
<p>This is the “<em>zerizus</em>” of the Targum Unqelus. They were prepared and surrounded by the mitzvah of taking in these children in need. Today we think of adoption as something someone does when they <em>r”l </em>can’t have children of their own. However, in light of this <em>devar Torah</em>, we see that this <em>mitzvah</em> played a central role in defining us as a people.</p>
<p>According to the Be’er Yosef, it is the merit of adopting orphans that rendered us ready for the redemption from Egypt!</p><div class="feedflare">
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