[Avodah] Bereshit 23: 6-16

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Wed Nov 18 20:51:47 PST 2009


 
From: Zev Sero _zev at sero.name_ (mailto:zev at sero.name) 

>> Using the same  word repeatedly through a story, and especially using it
in more than one  sense, is common in Tanach. << 
 
 


>>>>>
 
The most striking example of that is the many times variants of "tzachak"  
and "sachak" occur in connection with Yitzchak.  Avraham laughing, Sarah  
laughing, the whole world rejoicing for her, Yishmael mocking, Avimelech 
seeing  Yitzchak and Rivka "playing."  Etc.
 

--Toby Katz
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