[Avodah] Mesorah?

[Zev Sero]

> On 9/12/2010 10:25 PM, Rich, Joel wrote:
>>> Did Yaakov know of HKB"H's telling Avraham that his descendants would be strangers in a strange land?
>
>> Surely he did.  I see no reason why Avraham would have kept it secret.
>> And the "ketz" of 400 years seems to have been known to the Jews in Egypt, because the Bnei Efraim mistook the date and left 30 years early.

> And how do you understand the drasha that Yaakov came "lagur" and not
> "lhishtakea"

They didn't intend to make Mizrayim their home.  They came to stay however
long they had to, whether that was 180 years or 210 or 400, and then get
out.


>  or the way HKB"H tells him he will bring him back (without mentioning
> it's just for burial)

"veyosef yashis yado al einecha" implies that he knew very well that he
wouldn't be coming back alive.


>  perhaps he didn't think it would be his generation?

That could also be.

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