[Avodah] A Question About Yitzchok Taking a Canaanite Wife

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 12:50:27PM -0500, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: So if Rivka had not come to E'Y, Yitzchak would most likely have  married a 
: Canaanite (Amorite) woman -- not just a woman who happened to be  living in 
: Canaan.

My point is that it is possible that the shevu'ah was mibenos the land of Kenaan.
Which would be an Amori woman, if she was from mei'eiver haYardein. So that would
fit RnTK's "most likely".

RnTK writes: 
: Rashi:  "You will be absolved of this oath....and take a wife for my  son 
: from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre."

: Art/Scroll footnote:  "Although Aner, Eshkol and Mamre were Amorites  (SEE 
: BER 14:13), descendants of Canaan (SEE BER 10:15-16), and Abraham had  
: Eliezer swear not to take a wife for Isaac from among the daughters of the  
: Canaanites, Abraham absolved Eliezer of this oath if he could not find a wife  
: from within the family, and instructed him to take a wife for Isaac from among 
:  the best of the descendants of Canaan (Mizrachi)."

However, the Mizrachi doesn't say "absolved Eliezer of this oath". Rather,
the Mizrachi focuses on el artzi ve'el moladti, and working out the
logistics of Ur Kasdim vs. Charan.

Yes, he does mention the flaw in mixing zera Avraham with that of the
Poshei'ah, but after the one mention, he just discusses what homeland
means in this context.

I think there are real grounds here to argue the chiddush that the sin of
Kenaan was being more identified with the country than the genetic line.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

-- 
Micha Berger             "Man wants to achieve greatness overnight,
micha at aishdas.org        and he wants to sleep well that night too."
http://www.aishdas.org         - Rav Yosef Yozel Horwitz, Alter of Novarodok
Fax: (270) 514-1507