Showing posts with label Rivkah. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

How Old was Rivkah when She Married Yitzchak? - Audio shiur for parshat Chayei Sarah


In this week’s shiur, we discuss the well known midrash, which is quoted in next week’s parsha, that Rivkah was three years old when she married Yitzchak, and that he was 37 years her senior. We look at a midrash which offers to be a more tenable approach as well as suggesting a number of figurative ways of understanding the message of the midrash that she was 3.

(Running Time- 50 minutes)