[Avodah] To praise Yishmael?

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Mon Nov 28 13:06:05 PST 2016


Here's a question I meant to ask a couple of weeks ago, from Parshas Lech  
Lecha:
 
In pasuk 16:16 we are told that Avraham was 86 years old when Yishmael was  
born, and Rashi comments there that this is written in order to praise 
Yishmael,  since it proves that Yishmael was 13 when he had a bris and he didn't 
 object.  ("Let's see, if Avraham was 86 when Yishmael was born, and 99 
when  he had a bris, then Yishmael was 13....").
 
But in 17:25 the pasuk states explicitly that Yishmael was 13 years old  
when he had a bris.  So we didn't need to do any arithmetic!
 
What then is Rashi's point?  Probably there are Rashi  super-commentaries 
that address this question but I'll just wait for my friends  here on Avodah 
to provide an answer.  Thank you.
 

--Toby Katz
t613k at aol.com
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