[Avodah] Agag

[saul mashbaum]

RISober wrote

>I definitely recall hearing that Agag - in the brief interval after Shaul spared him and before Shmuel killed him - found a shifcha >through whom he was able to continue his line of descent. But I can't find the source for this! Does anyone know the source?
 
This is the idea of  the statement in the gemara Megilla 13a that Haman HaAgagi (a descendant of Agag) was born as a result of  Shaul's sparing of Agag.
We say this in the piyyut "Asher heini" said after the megilla reading (which ends with the familiar stanza "Shoshanat Yaakov"):
"Velo zachar [Haman] rachamei Shaul, ki b'chemlato al Agag nolad oyev". The Eitz Yosef in Otzar HaTefillot there mentions the story of the shifcha RIS cites.

Saul Mashbaum