## Kitzur Ba'al HaTurim on Genesis Chapter 11

###### Kitzur Ba'al HaTurim on Genesis 11:1:1
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**ודברים** ב' הכא ואידך והבלים ודברים הרבה. שהרבו לדבר הבלים הרבה:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 Source::**
"words" (דברים) and "meaningless words" (הבלים) are mentioned twice in the verse, indicating that the people spoke both meaningful and meaningless words.


###### Kitzur Ba'al HaTurim on Genesis 11:1:2
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**שפה אחת** בגימטריא לשון הקדש:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 Source::**
שפה אחת, "one language", in Gematria [this corresponds to] לשון הקדש "the holy tongue" [= Hebrew]. [the value of שפה אחת is 794, that of לשון הקדש is 795, which is 794 plus 1 added for its totality]


###### Kitzur Ba'al HaTurim on Genesis 11:2:1
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**בנסעם** ב' במסורה הכא ואידך בנסעם מן המחנה. זה הוא שדרשו רז"ל אותו היום סרו מאחרי ה' משל לתינוק שבורח מן הספר פי' בנסעם מקדם שנסעו מקדמונו של עולם:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 Source::**
occurs 2 times in the Tanakh as follows: "When they traveled from the camp, our rabbi, may his memory be blessed, explained thus: 'That day they turned away from God.' It is equivalent to this saying: "a child who runs away from scriptures." This means that when they traveled east, they were moving away from "the beginning of the world," the place where "God originally created the world."


###### Kitzur Ba'al HaTurim on Genesis 11:3:1
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**איש אל רעהו הבה** ס"ת שלוה מפני שלוה יתירה שהיה להם חטאו:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 Source::**
איש אל רעהו הבה "Man, come to his neighbor." "A Torah scroll that is incomplete [missing letters] should be set aside in order to promote peace, because of the great peace that would result from correcting it."


###### Kitzur Ba'al HaTurim on Genesis 11:3:2
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**לאבן** ב' במסורה הכא ואידך וימת לבו בקרבו והוא היה לאבן. גבי נבל מה להלן מיתה אף כאן מיתה שיותר היה קשה להם מן המות כשנפלה לבנה מן המגדל:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 Source::**
לאבן "Into Stone" Appears 2 times in Tanakh"And his heart died within him, and he turned into a stone. Regarding the incident of Nabal (in 1 Samuel 25), just as there it says "death," so too here it means death. But in this case, it was a death that was even harder for them than death itself, when the moon fell from the tower (of Babel)."


###### Kitzur Ba'al HaTurim on Genesis 11:8:1
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**ויפץ** ג' במסורה הכא ואידך ויפץ העם בכל ארץ מצרים. ויפץ העם מעליו גבי שאול וז"ש חז"ל ראויין אנשי מגדל ואנשי מצרים לפורענות א' ואלו נפוצו מן המגדל ואלו ממצרים וזהו ויפץ העם מעליו:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 Source::**
"And they scattered" [Genesis 11:8] in the Masorah here and there: "And the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt." "And the people scattered from him" [1 Samuel 13:11], and our Sages of blessed memory said that the people of the Tower and the people of Egypt were both deserving of punishment, and some were scattered from the Tower and some from Egypt, and this is the meaning of "and the people scattered from him."...


###### Kitzur Ba'al HaTurim on Genesis 11:8:2
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**ויחדלו** ב' במסורה הכא ואידך ויחדלו הקולות והברד. מלמד שאף אלו נדונו בקולות וברד:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 Source::**
ויחדלו "Vay'chadaloo" (And they ceased) - In the second explanation, "And they ceased" refers to the voices and hail. This teaches that even they (the Egyptians) were punished with the voices and hail.


###### Kitzur Ba'al HaTurim on Genesis 11:10:1
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**שנתים אחר** ב' דסמיכי הכא ואידך שנתים לפני הרעש. שגם במבול היה רעש גדול:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 Source::**
שנתים אחר "Shnayim Achar" in Sefer Smichut, here and there: "Two years after the noise". Meaning two years before the earthquake. Just as there was a great noise during the flood [in the time of Noah], there was also a great noise before the earthquake.


###### Kitzur Ba'al HaTurim on Genesis 11:29:1
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**שרה** בא"ת ב"ש בג"ץ. שהוא בגימטריא יסכה זו היא רמז למה שאחז"ל יסכה זו שרה:

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 Source::**
שרה "Sarah" in the Aleph Bet Shin Bet Shin Bet Gematria. This is a hint to what our sages said, "This "Yiskah" is Sarah."