[Avodah] A few notes on Parshas Vayetzei

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_zev at sero.name_ (mailto:zev at sero.name)  writes:

>>Actually, they'd only been traveling for one day - "hayom  yatzati vehayom
bati" - so they probably weren't very thirsty.  It  would still have been
a big job for such a small girl, and demonstrated her  trait of chessed,
but the total volume of water drawn may not have been all  that much.<<

-- 
Zev  Sero                

 
 
>>>>>
That's a stretch.
I don't believe she was a little girl tagging along after an older woman  who 
was doing the real work, there is absolutely no source for that.  Even  if 
she was only three (about which I believe there are different opinions) and  
even if the trip only took one day (again, different opinions) the text is clear  
that she was big enough to do real work and that she poured a LOT of  water.  
She had to fill troughs, remember.

 

--Toby Katz
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--Toby  Katz
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