Since Yisrael borrowed the Egyptians' vessels, why did they not return them?
Seforno: When Par?oh attacked Yisrael at the Yam-Suf, Yisrael acquired the borrowed objects as spoils of war. 1
Rashbam and R? Bachye: In fact, they did not borrow the Egyptians' vessels at all; 2 they asked for them 3 as gifts. 4
Riva #1 (in 12:36): Hashem owns all wealth [and He authorized them to keep them].
Riva #2 (in 12:36): It was justifiable to keep them as wages for their work. 5
Ohr ha'Chayim: Refer to 3:18:3:1.
Seforno: Measure for measure - since the Egyptians came to kill Yisrael and to take their possessions as spoils, Hashem killed them and Yisrael took their possessions as spoils.
R. Bachye: Because Hashem would never permit Geneivas Da?as (borrowing under false pretences).
R. Bachye: And we find gifts referred to with the Lashon of ?She?eilah? in in Shoftim 8:4 and in Melachim 1, 2:20.
Rashbam: Which they gave willingly, due to their fear of the Makos. Da'as Zekenim and Hadar Zekenim: Seeing as the Torah writes ?va?Hashem Nasan es Chein ha?Am be?Einei Mitzrayim Vayash?ilum? (12:36).
As the Gemara records in Sanhedrin 91a, in connection with the international tribunal that Alexander the Great set up - where a wise hunchback called Gevihah ben Pesisah put forward that argument when the Egyptians demanded the return of their Kelim, and won.
?ve?Sh?lh Ishah mi?Shecehntah u?mi?Garas Beisah .. ?. Who is ?mi?Garas Beisah referring to?
Rashi (in Nedarim 21b): ?It is like ?mi?Shechentah? ?. 1
Targum Yonasan: ?The woman who was close to the walls of her house?. 2
Why did Hashem command the women to borrow and not the men?
R. Bachye (citing R. Chananel): If the Egyptians would agree to give the women gifts. Kal va?Chomer the men.
Why did Hashem instruct them to ask specifically for silver and golden clothes (Rashbam) and women's clothes?
Rashbam: In order to dress their sons and daughters respectfully in honor of the forthcoming Yom-Tov. 1
I.e. the day of Matan Torah - Shavuos. See also Ba'al ha'Turim.
What is the meaning of "v'Nitzaltem Es Mitzrayim"?
Rashi (citing Targum Onkelos) and Targum Yonasan: It means that they emptied Egypt 1 (of the articles mentioned in the Pasuk). 2
As the Gemara explains in Berachos (9b) (commenting on the word "va'Yenatzelu" (12:36)) 'They made it like the depths of the sea where there are no fish.' See also Ba'al ha'Turim.
Later at the Yam-Suf, they received even more booty in the form of ornaments (See Rashi to Shemos 15:22).
Why were women commanded to ask from "mi'Garas Beisah," but not from 'mi'Gar Beisah' (i.e. a male Mitzri living in her house)?
R. Yehudah ha'Chasid: No Yisrael would allow a Mitzri in his house, 1 lest he be secluded with his wife or rape her, or lest she desire him, and this will spoil the [Yisrael's] children from his wife. One can have a Mitzris in his house. His wife will guard against seclusion, and he can guard himself from desiring her.
This is also the intent of Moshav Zekenim, but there is a printing mistake.
