[Avodah] A few notes on Parshas Vayeiro

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

Regarding Yishmael, R"n Toby Katz wrote:
> Second of all, all his sins of "AZ, GA and shefichas damim
> and that he went out 'letarbus ra'" were subtle -- he hadn't
> yet done anything obvious and overt.

Please give me an example of committing shefichas damim in a "subtle" manner.

The only example I can think of is that embarrassing someone could be considered as a "subtle" form of killing them. Are you suggesting that Rashi was referring to Yishmael embarrassing someone?

Akiva Miller