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[Zev Sero]

Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
> http://www.yctorah.org/content/view/345/10/  r avi weiss=    myaldot 
> -jewish or not?  are rashi and sforno looking thru the lens of the goyim 
> of THEIR day, as to whether to expect the noble gentile?

I don't think so.  I think Rashi was more likely influenced by the
conclusion, "vaya'as lahen batim", which he understands as the midwives'
reward for disobeying the order - "batei kehuna uvatei malchut".

Malbim, OTOH, understands that *Par'oh* made houses for the midwives,
not as a reward but in order to frustrate their defiance.  By having
official midwife stations from which all midwives must be dispatched
Par'oh would know when they were dispatched, and could make sure that
they obeyed his orders.  


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