[Avodah] A Question About Yitzchok Taking a Canaanite Wife

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:37:37AM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: Of course I was mistaken.  Aner, Eshkol and Mamre were Amorites --  
: descendants of Canaan.  If Eliezer had not found a suitable wife for  Yitzchak in 
: Aram, or she wasn't willing to come to E'Y, then Yitzchak would  indeed have 
: married a Canaanite woman.

Perhaps mibenos Kenaan didn't refer to Canaanite women but to women from
the land of Canaan?

I wanted to say that Aneir, Eshkol and Mamrei were "nefesh asher asu
becharan", freed from their genetic and cultural origins. But then, so
was Eliezer. So then the thought crossed my mind that maybe Eliezer's
living in Eretz Kenaan exposed his daughter to influences that the
converts in Trans-Jordan were not subject to.

And who other than the avos attended the yeshivos of Sheim vaEiver?
Wouldn't any of them have daughters? But again, they too would be
living in Kenaan.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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