THE BAIS HAVAAD ON THE PARSHA 5772 PARSHAS SHEMOS Mesirah; Informing on Violators

Fundamentals of Mesirah By: Rabbi Yitzchok Grossman “And Moshe was afraid” - in addition to the Peshat that he feared the temporal consequences of the discovery of his vigilante execution of the Egyptian, Rashi cites a Medrash that what worried him was the realization that Israel contained “villains, informers – he said 'now, perhaps they are not worthy of redemption'”.