This has nothing to do with Daas Torah. Earlier in this thread HaLeiVi mentioned living in Mitzrayim even though it’s “neged hatalmud”. So I saw an interesting pshat from the Ben Ish Chai. There is a machlokes Amoraim as to what Mitzrayim was like after the Jews ransacked it. R’ Ami says that they made it like a trap with no grain in it and Reish Lakish says that they made it like the depths of the sea with no fish in it. The Ben Ish Chai expains that they are actually arguing about whether the prohibition to live in Mitzrayim applies nowadays. He explains that the reason for the prohibition is that when the Jews left, they rescued all the ?????? ????? so now that there is no more tikun to be done there, it’s assur to live there. But once people went back and did aveiros, there is now more ?????? ????? to be rescued and therefore there the issur should no longer apply. Now R’ Ami spoke about a trap without grain, which is temporary – in the future there might be grain in the trap. So too, in the future when there will be ?????? ????? it will be mutar to live in Mitzrayim. Reidh Lakish spoke about the depths of the sea which don’t have fish and never will. Therefore it is always assur to live in Mitzrayim. (I hope I got the kabbalistic parts right.)
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