[Avodah] Lying to Paro and the Egyptians

[Brent Kaufman]

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> From: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon at gmail.com>
>
>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.
>

That's interesting but unexplained. It appears to be a distinction without
a difference. Regardless of wordplay it seems to be a less than ideal way
in which to obtain something that belongs to someone else; especially since
that had to go in their homes during makkos choshech. Why was it necessary
for HKBH to bring it about in such an underhanded kind of way?

Which, btw, wasn't makkos choshech, actually a makkah of blindness? Since
an Egyptian and a Jew that were standing in the Egyptians home, the Jew
could see and the Egyptian couldn't. That seems more like blindness than
actual lack of light.
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