[Avodah] The Three Zechisim

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 06:10:26PM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: The 49 levels of tumah they sank into had to do with avodah zara
: and kishuf -- not arayos....
:                   There was only one single individual woman who ever  had 
: relations with an Egyptian, Shlomis bas Divri. Every Jew other than her son
: (the megadef) was able to trace his yichus exactly ben achar ben back to one
: of the shvatim.

Nu, so they didn't intermarry. It doesn't mean everything was kosher
veyosher on other fronts.

The AZ is described as only being lehatir lahem es ha'arayos.
And isn't ma'aseh eretz Mitzrayim shorthand for a cheit in inyanei arayos?
It would seem that in Egyptian AZ (as many others), hainu hakh!

But I agree with the basic notion. A person can't be summed up in a single
number. "49th level" is to my mind shorthand for saying it would take
49 days to get to be ready for Sinai. Not that their entire spiritual
standing fit in a single number. A single IQ number doesn't tell much
of the story WRT intellect, qal vachomer a person's spiritual standing!

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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