<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 23:06:51 -0500<br>
From: Brent Kaufman <<a href="mailto:cbkaufman@gmail.com" target="_blank">cbkaufman@gmail.com</a>><br><br>ZL: >>It doesn't read like that. He is<br>
>>belittling the idea of performing the avodah by asking "What is this to<br>
>>you?"<br>
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I think you are reading the 'belittling' part into the question where it<br>
isn't there. ... The reason we know he's a rasha is only because the narrator<br>
tells us that he is upfront.<br>
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Chaimbaruch Kaufman<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> I agree. I meant that that is how the narrator is taking it. As I mentioned, the pasuk in context is certainly not taking the question or its framer as being offensive or confrontational.</div><div><br></div><div>Zvi Lampel</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">***********************<br>
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