<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Eli Turkel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">eliturkel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In the beginning og this weeks parsha, Bo, It says that G-d hardened the<br>
hearts of Pharoh and all his servants.<br>
I understand Pharoh in that he had a chance to repent until now and so<br>
he has "gone over the edge"<br>
However, it is harder to say that the all the servants of Pharoh were on<br>
such a low level with no exceptions<br></blockquote><div><br>I hear a pshat last year that part of the Makkot was to teach the Egyptians that all of their gods are worthless. Since Pharoh made himself into a god, his free will had to be removed as part of the plagues - even when all common sense said otherwise - to teach the mitzrim that he too is subject to Hashem.<br>
This doesn't answer the servants. but shows how Pharoh didn't necessarily even need to go over the edge.<br></div></div>