[Avodah] Lying to Paro and the Egyptians

[Joel C. Salomon]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 9:30 PM Brent Kaufman via Avodah <
avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> I have never been able to find a reasonable answer to this basic question
> about leaving Egypt. Why is it that HKBH tells BY to lie to the Egyptians
> about "borrowing" their fancy kelim? There was never an intent to return
> them, and BY had to even use sneaky tricks to find out where their
> neighbors kept the kelim during makkos choshech.
>

Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch distinguishes between sho’el me’eis, requesting,
and sho’el me’im, borrowing.  In this context, it’s the first term used.

—Chesky
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