창세기 47:27의 Chasidut

Genesis 47,27 “Israel (not Yaakov), settled in the land ‎of Goshen,” [here the name Israel, for the first time, ‎refers to the Jewish people, in its infancy, Ed.] “They ‎acquired holdings in it and became fruitful and multiplied ‎greatly.” It is an accepted principle that when a ‎‎tzaddik (for whatever reason) is forced to reside among ‎pagans, some of the cultural values of the people surrounding ‎him confuse him, and when it comes to the stage that he ‎entertains love for the forbidden or awe of the idols worshipped ‎by the people surrounding him, some “tzaddikim” become ‎totally corrupted, whereas others succeed in utilizing alien ‎philosophies and turn them to good use through sublimating ‎them in their service of the One and Only true G’d. The reason ‎that the latter type of tzaddik is able to do this, is that he ‎says to himself that if cultural values that are evidently vain and ‎ultimately useless, have attracted so much love and esteem by ‎their supporters, how much more love and esteem must he, the ‎‎tzaddik, bring to the service of the true and everlasting G’d! ‎When the Torah writes in our paragraph that the Israelites ‎‎“adopted” i.e. were taken captive, ‎ויאחזו‎, by the prevailing ‎cultural values of the Egyptians, the meaning is that they were ‎able to sublimate these values and yet remain Yisrael at the ‎same time.