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none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708"> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708"><o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708">"And the man said: 'This time
it is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; this shall be called Woman,
because she was taken from man.' " (2:23)</font></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708"><o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708">QUESTION:</font></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708"> The words </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708">"zot hapa'am"</font></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708"> — "this time"
— seem superfluous? Why is it used?</font></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708">ANSWER:</font></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708"> According to the </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708">Gemara</font></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708"> (</font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708">Niddah</font></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708"> 31a), there are
three partners in the formation of man: Through Hashem, he receives a soul,
through the father the bones, nails, and brain, and through the mother, skin
and flesh. Adam emphasized that </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708">this</font></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708"> time, and </font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708">only</font></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708"> this time, the bone
and the flesh both came all from the same Source.</font><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#060708" face="Verdana">ri</font></p>
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