[Avodah] yishmael v. the mitzri???

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:38:46PM -0500, David Riceman wrote:
: Rashi says "Ra'ah ki ein ish atid latzeit mimenu sheyitgayer".  
: Whoever-it-was-who-started-this-thread understands, quite correctly in 
: my view, that this is in addition to being guilty of a capital crime.  
: According to you what is Rashi saying? How does this add to Moshe's 
: knowledge that the mitzri has committed a heinous crime?

Two things: 1- He was capable of comitting a capital crime; 2- there was
nothing else in him worth saving, no potential geirim in who he was
then.

RDR, the way you're understanding things, what do you do with my
balebatishe question: Since the Mitzri was about to die, there obviously
were no future offspring of any worth coming from him. So all Moshe
would see is the results of the decision he's a bout to make. And then
everything ends. If the asid here doesn't refer to ro'eh es hanolad,
what does it mean? And if it does refer to that which is capable of
unfolding from what he is now, then how isn't it part of baasher hu
sham?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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