"Bnei Reuvain Chanoch Mishpachas HaChanochi"; Rashi asks, why does the Torah add a "Hey" to the beginning of each family name and a "Yud" to the end (Chanoch becomes HaChanochi, Palu becomes HaPaluee)?
He answers, because the nations of the world were ridiculing Klal
Yisroel by saying, "Why are you tracing your ancestry to your Shevatim?
Are you under the impression that the Mitzriyim were not Mezaneh with
your mothers?? If they controlled the Bnai Yisroel by forcing them to
work, they surely were Mezaneh with the Bnos Yisroel. So all of you are
really descendants of Egyptians!" Therefore Hashem added a "Hey" to the
beginning of each family name and a "Yud" to the end, using the name of
Hashem - "Koh" - as a testimony that the Jewish women in Mitzrayim were
not Mezaneh.
Why did the nations of the world first accuse the Bnos Yisroel of Znus at this point (by the counting of the 40th
year in the desert)?
The nations of the world would have never accused Klal Yisroel of
transgressing the Avayrah of Znus, were it not for the episode that
happened in Shittim where the Bnai Yisroel were Mezaneh with the
daughters of Moav. It was only after the nations saw this Avayrah, that
they said "Just like the men were Mizaneh here, so too were the women
Mezaneh in Mitzrayim.
We know that in the Hebrew language Ish means a man and Ishah a woman.
They both have the letters Aleph and Shin in their name. What
differentiates between them is that an Ishah has a "Hey" and Ish a
"Yud". Although it would have been more correct to place the "Yud" in
front of the names of the families and the "Hey" at the end, since the
‘Yud" represents the men, who were Mezaneh in Shittim, and were the
cause for the accusation of the nations, they are placed at the end of
the names. As opposed to the letter "Hey', which represents the women,
who were not Mezaneh in Mitzrayim, they are placed at the beginning of the names.
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