tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post3009613892452064551..comments2024-03-27T16:27:03.093+02:00Comments on Shiloh Musings: We Were Warned!Batyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-47625167603863584452010-01-06T23:25:40.082+02:002010-01-06T23:25:40.082+02:00Thanks for the additional info.Thanks for the additional info.Batyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-8859573629266405572010-01-06T23:19:38.013+02:002010-01-06T23:19:38.013+02:00They didn't necesseraly reqrite it right away
...They didn't necesseraly reqrite it right away<br /><br />The oppression started - or the big oppression started when a new king arose who didn't know Yosef - he was not even alive at the time. This was some time after the whole generation died out.<br /><br />TAs for rewriting histiory - it is true that rameses re-wriote history. He is well kown for putting his name on things that other Pharohs had built, and of coure he renamed Goshen "Ramses" <br /><br />The Egyptians continued re-writing history more and more, eventually hiring a Greek Herodtus, to write a book taht purported to describe ALL the peoples of the area with the idea of removing Jews from history. Therefore he could not bring down the history of the Persian Wars down to his own time.Sammy Finkelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05105012664741556033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-87815506202340759242010-01-06T20:03:58.785+02:002010-01-06T20:03:58.785+02:00Interesting, Sabba, the rabbi who gave the shiur d...Interesting, Sabba, the rabbi who gave the shiur didn't mention that midrash.Batyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040911.post-72576009214297419412010-01-06T19:05:51.318+02:002010-01-06T19:05:51.318+02:00Even if Yoseph was still in power (and possibly ev...Even if Yoseph was still in power (and possibly even more than otherwise) Yoseph would have had to beg for permission to leave the country. Par'o was the "god-king" and everything had to be <b>explicitly</b> permitted by him. There is a medrash that the famine stopped when Yaakov came to Mitzrayim and resumed 17 years later upon his death. As a result, Par'o would not have wanted to take the risk of losing his "magic" servant. Indeed, had Yoseph not sworn to Yaakov that he would be buried in Canaan, Par'o would not have allowed them to take the body out of the country. There are meforshim who state that Par'o made sure to keep the families in Mitzrayim as hostages to make sure that they would come back after the funeral and not "defect".<br /><br />THe actual shibud only started after Levi (who lived the longest of the brothers) died. It was only after the last survivor of the original generation died that the Egyptians were able to start the oppression. Consider what is being done now as the generation of the Holocaust dies out.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08948061264564780402noreply@blogger.com