Horav S.R. Hirsch, z.l., notes that the Torah mentions the mother’s name only after the son had sinned. Prior to his sin, he is referred to simply as “the son of an Israelite woman.” The Torah mentions the mother’s prior immorality in light of the sin performed by the son. Without the mother’s immoral behavior, such an outbreak of un-Jewish depravity would never have occurred. Shlomis’ anonymity would have been secured. After her son’s transgression, however, it became evident that only the mother’s immoral relationship with an Egyptian could have nurtured such miscreant behavior among Klal Yisrael. The horror of…
