[Avodah] tower of bavel

Moshe Y. Gluck mgluck at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 19:26:30 PDT 2007


R'n LL:
> I think it's Rashi, but I may be misremembering, and I'm too lazy to
> get up and check, but Yoktan was his younger brother, and it lists
> generations that descended from Yoktan among the nations that were
> dispersed.  Therefore, it couldn't be at the end of his life.  Ah,
> now I remember.  It was Rashi.  I think he says that the Torah comes
> to explain and not to obscure, so it must have been at one end or the
> other of his life if it doesn't say when exactly.  And since it
> couldn't be at the beginning of his life, it must have been at the
> end.

See Rashi, Shabbos 10b, s.v. She'yeshivasah Krovah.

KT,
MYG




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