## Rashbam on Genesis Chapter 21 ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:6:1 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:6:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:6:1) צחוק - שמחה של תמהון. **Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:** צחוק, a joy occasioned by the miracle which she had experienced. ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:7:1 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:7:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:7:1) ותאמר מי מלל לאברהם - כלומר: ידעו ויבינו כל השומעים מי האלהים שמלל לאברהם להיות לו בן משרה. **Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:** ותאמר: מי מלל לאברהם, everyone knows that it was the One and only G’d Who had foretold Avraham that Sarah would bear a son for him. ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:7:2 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:7:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:7:2) כי היניקה בנים שרה - אחרי זקנותה ולזקוניו של אברהם כי אין גדול כאלהים. **Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:** כי הניקה שרה בנים, such a prophecy that Sarah who had become old without ever conceiving would nurse children could only have emanated from the One and only G’d! ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:8:1 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:8:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:8:1) ויגמל - נבדל מן הדדים, כדכתיב בשמואל: עד גמלך אותו. **Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:** ויגמל, he was separated from depending on his mother’s nipples. ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:8:2 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:8:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:8:2) ביום הגמל - שעשה אז משתה, כמו שמצינו בשמואל כאשר גמלתו הביאתו שילה וקורבנות עמו. **Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:** We find a similar expression in connection with Samuel I 1,23 referring to the day he was weaned. Such days were marked by a feast. Chanah brought Samuel to Eli in Shiloh at the time. (Samuel I 1,24) ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:9:1 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:9:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:9:1) מצחק - שכבר גדל הרבה ולא רצתה להשהותו עוד פן ירצה להחזיק בירושת אביו עם יצחק. **Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:** מצחק, in the meantime Ishmael was already 16 years old. Sarah did not want him to remain in the same household any longer so that he would not get ideas about sharing in the inheritance with Yitzchok. ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:12:1 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:12:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:12:1) יקרא לך זרע - בריתי שהקימותי לזרעך לתת להם את ארץ כנען, כדכתיב: כי גר יהיה זרעך וגו', על יצחק הבטחתיך. **Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:** יקרא לך זרע, a reference to the covenant between G’d and Avraham, which included that Avraham’s seed would remain strangers in a land not theirs before they would inherit the land of Canaan (15,13). G’d reminded him that his promise referred to Yitzchok and not to Ishmael. ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:14:1 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:14:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:14:1) ותתע במדבר באר שבע - לפיכך: ויכלו המים מן החמת -שאלו הלכה דרך ישר היה מספיק לה החמת מים שנתן לה אברהם עד המלון. **Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:** ותתע במדבר באר שבע, that is why she ran out of water, a supply of which she had carried with her. Avraham had given her a big enough supply if she would have taken the direct route to Beer Sheva. ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:16:1 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:16:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:16:1) כמטחוי - כתרגומו. ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:17:1 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:17:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:17:1) באשר הוא שם - לפי שלא היתה רואה אותו שהרי נתרחקה מאותו מקום, הוצרך לומר במקום אשר הוא שם נתן לו את המים. **Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:** באשר הוא שם, seeing she could not see him from the place where she had sat down, the angel had to use this manner of referring to Ishmael. He would be provided with water at that location. ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:20:1 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:20:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:20:1) רובה קשת - מושך בקשת ושני גזרות הן. וימררהו ורבו. וגם יסבו עליו רביו, מלשון רבב כמו סובו מן סבב, שומו שמים מן שמם. דומו יושבי אי מן דממה דקה כולם נכפלים באות אחרונה, אבל רובה מגזרת רבה. עשה. בנה. קנה. שיאמר עושה. בונה. קונה. **Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:** רובה קשת. Pulling the string of a bow. We are dealing with two successive forms of an activity, as in Genesis 49,23 וימררוהו ורבו, “they shot at him and harried him.” [I am choosing this translation of the JPS seeing that in both verse 23 and 24 where the “bow” and the “arrows” are mentioned. Ed.] The expressionרובה as a variation of רבב is found in Job 16,13 as it is in Psalms 48,13, where it is derived from the root סבב. A construction שומו as a derivative of שמם is found in Jeremiah 2,12, just as the construction דומו derived from דמם is found in Isaiah 23,2. Also, the expression דממה דקה, a very low voice, in Kings I 19,12 is a similar construction. The common feature in all these constructions is that the last root letter appears twice in succession. Our example of רובה is different, seeing that there is no such repetition of the last root letter. Therefore its root is רבה, and the construction is similar to עושה from עשה, or בונה from בנה, or קונה from קנה. ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:21:1 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:21:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:21:1) במדבר פארן - כדכתיב: והוא יהיה פרא אדם. **Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:** במדבר פארן, as predicted in 16,12 והוא יהיה פרא אדם. ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:22:1 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:22:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:22:1) ויהי בעת ההיא - שנולד יצחק משרה וידע אבימלך נסים שעשה לו הקב"ה, לכך בא עתה לכרות ברית עמו. וכן כל בעת ההיא צריך לפרש לפי המאורע. **Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:** ויהי בעת ההיא, at the time when Yitzchok was born by Sarah and Avimelech had become a first-hand witness to the miracles G’d had performed for Avraham. This is why he and his chief general were now interested in concluding an alliance with Avraham. Every time the expression בעת ההיא occurs it must be understood in terms of happenings immediately preceding the ones to which the next paragraph is linked. ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:23:1 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:23:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:23:1) ולנכדי - בן בני. **Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:** ולנכדי, to my grandson. ###### Rashbam on Genesis 21:33:1 [Rashbam on Genesis 21:33:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashbam%20on%20Genesis/r/21:33:1) ויטע אשל - פרדס היה להתפלל שם. **Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash:** ויטע אשל, an orchard. The presence of such an orchard should encourage people to pray to G’d there.