Bible Review

“The whole universe is sustained on account of my son Hanina” (Babylonian Talmud, Ta’anit 24b).

Babylonian Talmud, Hagigah 15b.

Pertaining to the end of days or the end of time.

’Amut is the first-person, singular, future conjugation. ‘Aleha completed the preposition ‘al with the third-person, female, singular pronoun.

Met is the second-person, male, singular, present conjugation. The preposition ‘al here is completed in the biblical text by the following word ha-ishah, “the woman.”

Her statement to Laban that she was menstruating cannot be an objection to this point, for that statement was a subterfuge to prevent her father from finding the teraphim beneath her.

That is, he overprotected Joseph because he lost his mother at such a young age. But Jacob’s favoritism was actually destructive, placing Joseph in jeopardy from his brothers. Jacob must have been aware of this. Such illogical behavior must be due to something much deeper than the premature loss of Jacob’s wife.

Other translations often omit the bracketed words.