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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: Micha Berger <A href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</A><BR><BR>: Of course I was
mistaken. Aner, Eshkol and Mamre were Amorites -- <BR>: descendants
of Canaan. If Eliezer had not found a suitable wife for Yitzchak in
<BR>: Aram, or she wasn't willing to come to E'Y, then Yitzchak would
indeed have <BR>: married a Canaanite woman. [--TK]<BR><BR>Perhaps mibenos
Kenaan didn't refer to Canaanite women but to women from<BR>the land of
Canaan?<BR><BR>I wanted to say that Aneir, Eshkol and Mamrei were "nefesh asher
asu<BR>becharan", freed from their genetic and cultural origins. But then,
so<BR>was Eliezer. So then the thought crossed my mind that maybe
Eliezer's<BR>living in Eretz Kenaan exposed his daughter to influences that
the<BR>converts in Trans-Jordan were not subject to.<BR><BR>And who other than
the avos attended the yeshivos of Sheim vaEiver?<BR>Wouldn't any of them have
daughters? But again, they too would be<BR>living in Kenaan.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Micha
Berger
<BR>micha@aishdas.org <BR>
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<DIV>Avraham to Eliezer: "Do not take a wife for my son from the daughters
of the Canaanites." (Ber 24:3)</DIV>
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<DIV>Eliezer: "Maybe the woman won't want to come with me to this
land."</DIV>
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<DIV>Avraham: "If the woman doesn't want to come here you will be absolved
of this oath." (Ber 24:8)</DIV>
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<DIV>Rashi: "You will be absolved of this oath....and take a wife for my
son from the daughters of Aner, Eshkol and Mamre."</DIV>
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<DIV>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)."</DIV>
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<DIV>BER 14:13: "And the fugitive came and told Abram, the Ivri, who dwelt in
the plains of *Mamre the Amorite* (Mamre the Emori), brother of Eshkol and of
Aner...."</DIV>
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<DIV>BER 10:15-16: "Canaan begot Zidon and....the Jebusites and the Amorites
(the Emori)..."</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>HOWEVER, there were also other possibilities. Eliezer said to Besuel
and Lavan, "If you won't send Rivka with me, I will turn to the right or the
left" (Ber 24:49)</DIV>
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<DIV>Rashi there says, "To the right -- from the daughters of Yishmael. To
the left -- from the daughters of Lot."</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><B>--Toby Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B>--------------------</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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