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I heard an awesome answer in a Dvar Torah given at our shul awhile ago:
The idea starts from the selling of Yosef into slavery: The Yishmaelim who took part in the deal were said to be
"...a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, their camels bearing gum, balm, and ladanum to be taken to Egypt." (Genesis 37:25)
Gilad is significant to the story as it ...
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Rashi is referencing the Gemorah in Kiddushin 81B which speaks about doing Teshuva and needing a Kappora for doing an action you think is forbidden when unbeknownst to you it really isn't. In such a situation a person has to do Teshuva. And if someone did something they thought was forbidden which indeed was forbidden the obligation of Teshuva is even ...
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