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As her name reflects, Shlomit bat Divri (literally, "Peace, the daughter of Speech") had the unworthy inclination to speak to everyone who passed her home, speaking "hello, peace" (shalom) to both Jews and Egyptians alike.
She was eventually raped by an Egyptian who masqueraded as her husband, and gave birth to a son who cursed G-d in anger at not receiving a parcel of land with the rest of his tribe.
To understand the incident of the MEGADEF ("blasphemer") in the closing section of our parshah (Leviticus 24:10ff), it is necessary to understand that "the son of the Israelite woman who was the son of an Egyptian man" was in fact the issue of an illicit relationship.
Shulamis Bas Divri is the exemplar of the opposite: immorality.
It was Shulamis Bas Divri's endeavor to erase distinctions that laid her open to the immoral relationship which led to the birth of the blasphemer.
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