The Torah seems to distinguish between different types of Egyptians. While the majority were obviously evil and supportive of Pharaoh’s diabolical plans to do with the Jews as he pleased, there were those who were “G-d-fearing”; they were “yarei es dvar Hashem,” “feared the word of Hashem.” Is that really true? Were these Egyptians truly G-d-fearing, or was it a ruse to save themselves and their possessions from ruin? Whatever happened to those animals that were rescued from death because of their owner’s “fear of the word of Hashem”? Chazal tell us that the horses that belonged to those “select”…
