[Avodah] Yishmael Text

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R' Yisrael Medad writes:

 

>>Toby suggests that
"the Torah almost never puts in one  extra  word...You find  examples of this
all over Chumash...An  example that comes to mind is with Dena and Shechem.
Not until  we read  that her brothers took her from Shechem's home (after
killing all the   men of the city) do we realize that she has been held
captive during all the  preceding conversations and negotiations"

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Well, I am not sure of that and I;m not referring to Parshat Nasso,  for
example).  Verse 1 of Chapt. 34 states plainly "and he took  her",
physically, i.e., absconded away with her, removed here from her  previous
location - this "taking" cannot be the sexual act for that is  described such
"and lay with her".  No, we surely can realize she was  being held against
her will all this time.<<

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>>>>
"He took her" tells us that he took her against her will.  It  doesn't tell 
us that he kept her captive and didn't let her go, during all his  sweet talk 
about how much he loved her and really wanted to marry her.   That, we only 
learn when her brothers free her.





--Toby  Katz
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