1)

What is the significance of the double expression, "va'Yeshev Yisrael... va'Ye'achazu Bah"?

1.

Targum Yonasan: 'They built Batei-Midrash and mansions in Goshen; and they acquired fields and vineyards there.

2.

Keli Yakar: It was an indictment of Yisrael, who began to settle down in Egypt, even though Hashem had told Avraham Avinu that they would be sojourners there. 1


1

Which they initially intended to do (as they had told Pharaoh; refer to 47:4:2:1 and the note there; see Keli Yakar). Also refer to 47:11:2:1.

QUESTIONS ON RASHI

2)

Rashi writes: "'In the land of Egypt' - And where [specifically]? In the land of Goshen." Why does Rashi add this?

1.

Gur Aryeh: We should not think that Egypt and Goshen were two distinct lands (and the Bnei Yisrael lived in both). The Torah already told us that the Bnei Yisrael descended to Egypt (46:8). If so, Goshen must be a region within Egypt.

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