[Avodah] Vayichad Yisro - Disparaging Non-Jews

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From: Michael Orr via Avodah _michaelorr at rogers.com_ 
(mailto:michaelorr at rogers.com) 


>>And if you are going to be loose enough to say a  many-generation ger
is still a "ger", then you can say the same about  descendants of gerim,
(that they are gerim). That is the Gra's  interpretation, according to
Rav Steinsaltz' note as I read it, and WADR  seems to me to be the only
reasonable way to understand  it.<<

 
 
>>>>>
 
There is some discussion among the meforshim as to whether Yael the wife of 
 Chever Hakeni (she was the woman who killed the general Sisra in her tent) 
was a  giyores or a non-Jew.  In either case she and her husband were 
descendants  of Yisro, but those who say she and her husband were gerim are using 
the word  "gerim" to include all the descendants of Yisro for generations, 
as long as they  were a separate recognizable group from the rest of Klal 
Yisrael -- even though  they were Jews.
 
 

--Toby  Katz
t613k at aol.com
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