Two Sages Debate the Nature of Pharaoh's Evil - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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The opening of parshas Shmois possuk ches. The possuk says "Vayakam melech chadash al Mitzrayim, asher lo yada es Yosef." A new king who did not know Yosef arose on Egypt. "Vayomer el amo", he tells his nation, "Hinei am bnei Yisrael rav v'atzum mimenu." The nation of the children of Israel is great and stronger than us. "Hava nischaqma lo", let us be sly and clever with this people. "Pen yirbeh", they may increase. The people and the nation may grow. "V'haya ki sikhrenu milchama", and if a war occurs, "v'nisaf gam hu al soneinu", this people too will join our foes, our enemies, "v'nilcham banu", and will fight us, "v'ala min ha'aretz", and drive us out of our own country. And thus begins the sad and tragic story of galus Mitzrayim, the horrific subjugation of the bnei Yisrael, of the children of Israel under the Pharaoh in Mitzrayim. Zuga d'gemara, meseches Eruvin, daf nun gimmel, amud alef. The gemara explains this possuk. The same gemara is also elsewhere, meseches Sotah, daf yud alef, and also in Medrash Rabbah in Shmois. Those are the three sources where the chazal all bring the same argument. "Vayakam melech chadash al Mitzrayim, asher lo yada es Yosef." A new king arose on Egypt, somebody who did not know Yoysef. Says the Gemara, Rav U'Shmuel. There was a debate between two of the sages, Rav and Shmuel. What's the problem? What's the debate? Kha d'amar, one says khadash mamash. Melekh khadash means literally a new a new king. A new king, a new leader arose and took over on Mitzrayim, became the new monarch of Mitzrayim. V'kha d'amar, the other view is she'nishkhashukh ze Yoysef. It's not literally a new king, it's just he changed his attitude. He created new decrees. Melekh khadash in the sense,

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