Hagar was a wife to Abraham, but a handmaid to Sarah (Midrash Aggadah, Bereishit 16:10).
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2007-08-29 17:09:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is no such midrash. I just went and looked in my copy of Midrash Rabbah - Chapter 16 in Midrash Rabbah is still on the first parsha Bereishis (the Torah is divided into weekly portions which we read- thus completely reading the Torah every year), and only has 8 midrashim in it. The parsha discussing the issue you are talking about comes later and is parsha Lech Lechah.
Nor do any of the commentaries in Mikraot Gedolot Merot bring any such midrash or aggadatah. Nor is there any such Midrash in Midrash Tanhuma. So, the question has to be, where did you get that citation?
Abram took her as a wife AFTER she had been a handmaid to Sarai (Their names had not yet been changed at this point):
Bereishis, Chapter 16
1. Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne to him, and she had an Egyptian handmaid named Hagar.
2. And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing; please come to my handmaid; perhaps I will be built up from her." And Abram hearkened to Sarai's voice.
3. So Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at the end of ten years of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to Abram her husband for a wife.
So, it is a narrative section- it does not contain any commandments in it.
2007-09-02 10:15:30 · answer #1 · answered by allonyoav 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is a Torah verse.
The Jewish Scriptures, the Torah, are very different than the Christian Bible. The Chumash, which is the 5 Books of Moses, and the Tanach, which is the 'rest' seem to be similar to the Old Testament. But that is in error. The Chumash and Tanach are in Hebrew and Aramaic and no translation is authoritative. All Christian translations do serious damage to the meaning of the Chumash and the Tanach, such damage as to be unrepairable. There are hundreds of purposefully false mis-translations in the Old Testament.
Of course, the New Testament is never part of Jewish Scripture.
The rest of the Torah includes the Talmud, published between 300 CE and 500 CE and the post Talmudic Responsa, which is still being written.
The verse you quoted is from the Talmud.
2007-08-29 17:32:16 · answer #2 · answered by emesshalom 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Midrash is a pious embellishment of a scriptural story. Midrash Haggadah refers specifically to the non-legalistic (non-commandment) parts of Scripture. This one refers to Bereishit 16:20, which is Hebrew for Genesis 16:20. Genesis, or Bereishit, is a part of the Torah. So this is a Talmud comment with a reference to a Torah verse. As a simple statement, it can't be considered a "commandment" anyway.
2007-08-29 17:25:50 · answer #3 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strong's Number: 0802 Browse Lexicon
Original Word Word Origin
hXXa from (0376) or (0582)
Transliterated Word TDNT Entry
'ishshah TWOT - 137a
Phonetic Spelling Parts of Speech
ish-shaw' Noun Feminine
Definition
1. woman, wife, female
1. woman (opposite of man)
2. wife (woman married to a man)
3. female (of animals)
4. each, every (pronoun)
It is translated 'wife', but Sarai is his wife. Abram just porked her.
2007-08-29 17:19:40 · answer #4 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The quotation citation is not the bible.
2007-08-29 17:15:07 · answer #5 · answered by Dianne m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is your momma done getting her face pasted by jew nut yet anti semite?
2007-08-29 17:21:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋