tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post6874515837180144375..comments2024-03-05T21:22:43.426-05:00Comments on parshablog: Is today the Yahrzeit of Rachel Imenu?joshwaxmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03516171362038454070noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-91014074514194908722011-11-10T03:28:30.092-05:002011-11-10T03:28:30.092-05:00better link:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.a...better link:<br />http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=34038&st=&pgnum=6&hilite=Zoharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13777354773864518000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-36297245597629642122011-11-10T03:20:53.952-05:002011-11-10T03:20:53.952-05:00See the intro by Abraham Epstein about the link bt...See the intro by Abraham Epstein about the link btwn Rabbenu Bachye's source, Midrash Tadshe, and Jubilees<br />http://www.hebrewbooks.org/33677<br />And see here quite fascinating, Epstein states that the author of Midrash Tadshe, R. Moshe HaDarshan acc to Epstein, believed that R. Pinchas ben Yair (to whom Tadsh is traditionally attributed to) was the author of Jubilees as well! Thus, it seems that R. Moshe HaDarshan's quoting Jubilees in his Tadshe as Pinchas ben Yair led to the eventual traditional attribution of Tadshe itself. <br />http://books.google.co.il/books?id=SepBAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA11&ots=TohSBR7Mjc&dq=%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%A9%20%D7%AA%D7%93%D7%A9%D7%90%20%D7%99%D7%95%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9D&hl=iw&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q&f=falseZoharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13777354773864518000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-23065919467066901022011-11-09T07:18:23.870-05:002011-11-09T07:18:23.870-05:00Thanks.
Indeed, that seems to be Rashi's sour...Thanks.<br /><br />Indeed, that seems to be Rashi's source, which makes it earlier and stronger. <a href="http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=39937&st=&pgnum=460" rel="nofollow">Mekorei Rashi</a> also identifies this as the source.joshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-73240463226093713432011-11-09T05:40:53.774-05:002011-11-09T05:40:53.774-05:00His source of Siftei Hakhamim as "other sourc...His source of Siftei Hakhamim as "other sources" that support Rashi is, um...Zoharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13777354773864518000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-19189915022213724612011-11-09T05:38:02.422-05:002011-11-09T05:38:02.422-05:00Wow! Great post! It would have been nice for Rav...Wow! Great post! It would have been nice for Rav Enkin to have mentioned Rashi's source. It seems to me:<br />בראשית רבה (וילנא) פרשה פב <br /><br />א"ר אליעזר בן יעקב בשעה שהארץ חלולה ככברה והבר מצוי, רבנן אמרי כבר הבר מצוי ועונת הגשמים עברה ועדיין השרב לא בא, ותלד רחל ותקש בלדתהZoharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13777354773864518000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-65752544154002778142011-11-07T21:43:43.287-05:002011-11-07T21:43:43.287-05:00good point.
though that is only via patrilineal d...good point.<br /><br />though that is only via patrilineal descent. presumably at some point, tribes intermarried with each other, such that it is 99.999999% that any Jewish person has Rachel as an eventual ancestor, from the mother's side.joshwaxmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149022516101476797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5589564.post-65619100032870273452011-11-07T19:38:05.737-05:002011-11-07T19:38:05.737-05:00If most of us are from Levi or Judah, isn't Ra...If most of us are from Levi or Judah, isn't Rachel our aunt and not our mother?Woodrowhttp://conservadox.tripod.comnoreply@blogger.com