The question of the week is: in this week’s Parsha
we are told that all the Egyptian firstborn were killed as it says in the Posuk
11:5 (מִבְּכוֹר פַּרְעֹה הַיֹּשֵׁב עַל-כִּסְאוֹ, עַד
בְּכוֹר הַשִּׁפְחָה). Rashi
says (עד בכור השבי: (שמות יב כט) למה לקו השבויים, כדי שלא יאמרו, יראתם תבעה עלבונם והביאה
פורענות על מצרים) that even a
Bechor of a captive of a different nation that was in Mitzrayim died. Rashi says
so that the captive shouldn’t say it was my god that killed all the firstborn,
he was doing it to rescue me. Therefore, even this Bechor died.
It seems from Rashi that if not for this reason the
( בכור
השבי) would not have died.
This is a Pele. One of the facts of the night of Makkas Bechoros is that even
the Jewish (Bechorim) people were in danger and therefore they had to put blood
on the doorposts. Why were the Jewish firstborn in danger?
So we are told Kivan Shenitan Rishus L’mashchis
L’hashchis there is no difference if you are a Tzaddik or Rasha. If the Malach
Hamaves is told to kill every first born he kills every first born and it
doesn’t matter who you are. If so, it would seem simple that the Bechor Hashvi
was killed because of this reason. Kivan Shenitan Rishus L’mashchis L’hashchis
there is no difference if you are a Tzaddik or Rasha he killed everybody. Why
then does Rashi say a new reason that the firstborn captives were killed?
Tzorech Iyun Gadol!!
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