[Avodah] The Wise Son vs the Wicked Son and the word ''you''

[Zvi Lampel]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 6:06 PM Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> And the rasha and the sheh-ayno yodeia lish'ol get the same pasuq quoted
> to them. Why does
> the "tam" get "lakhem" without the midrashic elaboration "'lakhem' - velo
> lo"?
>
> I'd say that concerning the sheh-ayni yodeia lish'ol, the main part of the
pasuk is v'higadta l-bincha, which wasn't cited to the rasha. Point being,
you should tell him the sippur even though he didn't ask, just as this
posuk was not preceded by a question.. Again, I think the "lachem" of the
rasha is taken as it is based on the context of his confrontational remark,
and the "li v'lo " response is just a clever shtuch in kind. But when
responding to the sheh-ayno yodeah lish'ol, the "li" is understood
according to the peshat of the posuk, which is an non-confrontational
remark of a parent impressing his child with how strongly he feels that
Hashem took him personally out of Mitzrayim, in reward for going through
with the korban Pesach rite.

Zvi Lampel
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