<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Ilana Sober Elzufon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ilanasober@gmail.com">ilanasober@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Rashi, following the midrash, says that he was mitgayer.<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Interesting, I hadn't thought through the Ger aspect.<br>
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Even though he was a Ger, and we are continually instructed not to
mistreat the Gerim "Ki Gerim Heyitem", he was still fully faulted for
what happened. Doesn't this make my argument even stronger? When I was looking I didn't see any meforshim who commented that Dan were wrong for provoking him either, which sort of surprised me.<br><br>Taking another approach, do we know if this man was actually enslaved in Egypt? Maybe, since his father was Egyptian, he was excluded. In this case, maybe the reasons to be nice to him in particular are minimized.<br>
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