Eikev 10:19 · EXTRA 1

Parashas Eikev · Passuk 10:19 · EXTRA (not a Torah Temimah unit)

The Complete Passuk

וַאֲהַבְתֶּ֖ם אֶת־הַגֵּ֑ר כִּֽי־גֵרִ֥ים הֱיִיתֶ֖ם בְּאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

You too must befriend the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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Source Citation

Classical source (not from the Torah Temimah enumeration on this passuk): Bava Metzia 59b.

Sefaria — Bava Metzia 59b

Core Idea of Chazal

Core Idea
וְאָהַבְתֶּם אֶת הַגֵּר כִּי גֵרִים הֱיִיתֶם — מום שבך אל תאמר לחברך.

English: Love the stranger, for you were strangers: do not reproach your fellow with a fault that is also yours (Bava Metzia 59b and parallels on the ger).

On the daf / in context: EXTRA on a SKIP passuk; classical Chazal on this verse’s theme, not a TT-numbered unit.

Type of Learning

Derash on the verse (Bavli sugya) — not a formal named middah of the 13

The Gemara uses this passuk in a sugya (proof, illustration, or dispute). Named as one of R' Yishmael’s 13 or R' Eliezer’s 32 only when that move is explicit.

What Is Learned

Israel’s memory of being strangers forbids shaming others with a shared flaw; love of the ger is guarded by that self-knowledge.