[Avodah] Mama Leah

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Tue Jan 10 13:38:31 PST 2023


On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 10:53:42PM -0500, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
> But no. Instead, Yaakov deliberately chose to describe Sarah as Avraham's
> wife, and Rivka as Yitzchak's wife, and to leave Leah undescribed.

And of the women buried in Me'aras haMachpeilah, only Lei'ah had a cowife.
Maybe Yaaqov wasn't going to call her "ishti -- my woman" (to be more
literal) if the relationship wasn't exclusive. Possible?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha


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