[Avodah] The Jews fed the Mitzrim During Makas Choshech

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 01:07:29PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 3/02/2012 6:18 AM, Micha Berger wrote:
>> a shevu'ah not to eat for 3 days is assumed to
>> be violated even at the beginning, since a person can't live three days
>> without food

> Your premise is incorrect, therefore kusya me'ikara leisa.  A person
> can certainly live for three days without food, and one who takes a
> shevu`ah to do so must keep it.  The period you're thinking of is
> seven days, not three.

I was only half wrong. Y-mi, Nedarim, 2:1:
    A shevu'ah that "I will not sleep during 3 days" -- give him malqos
    and he could sleep immediately.
    A shevu'ah that "I will not eat [akhilah implicitly include shetiyah]
    during 3 days" -- wait him out until he eats, and then give him
    malqos.

So, it's possible enough not to be a shevu'as shav (my half wrong), it is
still singled out as being incredibly unlikely -- which I am considering
my "half right", since clearly a whole nation didn't survive that way.

At least not miderekh hateva. A simpler suggestion to the one I'm hunting
for a maqor for would simply be that survival without food was part of
the general neis of a darkness that had substance.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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