<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 4:29 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cantorwolberg@cox.net">cantorwolberg@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
46:7 Banav uv'nei vanav eeto B'NOSAV uv'nos banav v'chol zar'o...<br>
Yaakov had only one daughter, Dinah. Apart from her, we do not know<br>
of any other daughters in Leah's family. The Torah's use of the plural for<br>
"his daughters" cannot be justified unless there was at least one additional<br>
daughter who arrived in Egypt. This conceivably could be Yocheves but the<br>
Torah did not include Yocheves in the names of the people who journeyed to<br>
Mitzrayim with Yaakov. So what is meant by "his daughers?"<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There is a midrash which says that each of the shevatim was born with a twin daughter. So now you just need to figure out why those daughters were not counted among the 70.</div>
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45:23 "To his father he sent the following...mi'tuv Mitzrayim..." Mituv Mitzrayim,"<br>
"the best of Egypt" which was a rather nebulous term, something which the Torah<br>
had not identified but rather referred to the quality of the various other items listed.<br>
In Megillah 16, "mi'tuv Mitzrayim" is described as referring to wine which had been<br>
aged for a long time. Bershis Rabbah 94:2 identified "mi'tuv Mitzrayim" as some kind<br>
of special white beans, a medication with anti-depressant properties. As a person who<br>
suffers from serious depression, I am going to purchase white beans and see if it indeed<br>
works. If so, perhaps a new medicinal cure from white beans can be developed. Stranger<br>
things have happened. (Perhaps, this is why cholent is so successful as a Shabbos meal.<br>
Its properties take away depression and hence, makes Shabbos so much better. Some of<br>
you may think I'm joking; but I'm NOT).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So presumably drinking a good aged wine is an anti-depressant too? </div><div><br></div><div>Kol Tuv,</div><div>Liron</div></div>
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