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Daily Daf Dose
The Gemora (Gittin 57) had stated that some of Haman’s grandchildren (his son’s sons) taught Torah in Bnei Brak.
There are those who ask the following: How is this possible? Why, behold, we do not accept converts from Amalek!?
Reb Yosef Engel answers that it is possible in the following scenario: An Amaleki woman got married to an idolater from a different nation. She gave birth to a son. That son is not regarded as an Amaleki, for the law regarding idolaters is that a child’s heritage is based upon his father, not his mother. A child from this son could be accepted as a convert. It emerges that the Gemora did not mean that Haman’s son’s sons converted; rather, there were descendants from Haman who converted and taught Torah in Bnei Brak.
There are those who ask the following: How is this possible? Why, behold, we do not accept converts from Amalek!?
Reb Yosef Engel answers that it is possible in the following scenario: An Amaleki woman got married to an idolater from a different nation. She gave birth to a son. That son is not regarded as an Amaleki, for the law regarding idolaters is that a child’s heritage is based upon his father, not his mother. A child from this son could be accepted as a convert. It emerges that the Gemora did not mean that Haman’s son’s sons converted; rather, there were descendants from Haman who converted and taught Torah in Bnei Brak.
1 comments:
Welcome back! And shkoyach.
Another easy possibility is that this gemara does not assume like the midrash that Haman was an Amalekite, but rather that he was an Aggagite, as a different nation, rather than as a descendant of Agag.
I have thoughts on the post above, but perhaps later.
Kol Tuv,
Josh
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