[Avodah] Binyamin - Ben Oni

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:35:21AM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: As for Rochel, she longed for children but did not live to raise  them.  She 
: never even had a chance to hold Binyamin, and probably never  even saw him.  

Tangent: Someone showed me an article back when I was a teen that argued
that Binyamin was a Frank breach (legs bent over, feet near head, bottom
first. That would cause the tearing and a fatal amount of blood loss
given the state of medicine at the time.

His proof? Bereishis 35:17
    Vayhi beaqshosahh belidtahh
    vatomer lahh hamyalledes,
    "al tir'i
    ki gam seh lakh ben."

The meyalledes knew that he would be a boy WHILE Racheil was in labor.
Implying that it wasn't Binyamin's head that emerged first.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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