Rashi Behalscha (9:14) says וכי יגור ועשה פסח – יכול כל המתגייר יעשה פסח מיד? תלמוד לומר: חקה אחת וגו׳. אלא כך משמעו: כי יגור גר ועשה פסח, ובא עת לעשות פסח עם חבריו,א כחקה וכמשפט יעשה. Rashi in Bo (12:48) says ועשה פסח – יכול כל המתגייר יעשה פסח מיד, תלמוד לומר: והיה כאזרח הארץ – מה אזרח בארבעה עשר, אף גר בארבעה עשר. Why is there a הוא אמינא that one who becomes a convert must offer a pesach immediately?
To answer this question we will ask another question. Rashi (12:6) says one of the mitzvot given to Klal Yisroel so they would have a merit to leave Egypt was the mitzvah of milah. Why is there a need for a new commandment of milah if this commandment existed from the time of Avraham? The milah wasn't given as the mitzvah of milah for Klal Yisroel, it was given as part of the process of a concert. One of the processes one must go through to become a convert is milah. That is how the Gemorah Kresus (9a) learns the obligation of milah in conversion (in one opinion) from here. In this vein we can understand that just as the milah was the milah of gerut, so too the korban pesach offering was not just for the pesach obligation but was also part of the gerut process of Klal Yisorel and I may very well think every convert will have to offer a pesach (Harrerey Kedem siman 57, see also Birchat Yitzchak (R' Gnack.)) What still needs to be explained is why Rashi have a derash to exclude from this הוא אמינא twice and why do I need two derashot?
The gemara learns the dinin of geirus from mattan torah. If their was geirus already in Mitzrayim, why did they need another geirus then?
ReplyDeleteThat was the end of the process that started when they left Egypt.
DeleteI would suggest you need 2 steps based on GRN"T in Kesubos by sugya of ger katan that there are 2 dinim: 1) shem yisrael and 2) kedushas yisrael. Perhaps the geirus in Egypt was to have a shem yisrael as part of the nation of am yisrael. Mattan Torah created a kedushas yisrael, which requires Torah, and therefore needed a new step of geirus.
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