Kommentar zu Schemuel I 1:6

Her rival. Her husband's other wife, Penina.

And her rival would anger her: Peninah, her rival wife, would anger her with words.

Her rival (tzarah): Peninah, who was a tribulation (tzarah) to her. And likewise, all two wives [married] to the same man are called tribulations (tzarot), since they are generally each other's enemies. And likewise in the Mishnah (Yevamot 1), "exempt their tzarot."

Frequently anger. Anger after anger, i.e., always.' Therefore it is written 'also [גֵם] anger.' She would say to her, "Did you buy your older son a cloak today, or your younger son, a shirt?"

Very much anger: Meaning to say, she would repeat it and anger [her] often.

Very much anger: One anger after another. She would say things [that cause] anger, since she did not have children. And in the homiletical teachings: She would anger [her] and anger [her] again. What would she say to her? "Did you buy your older son a cloak today, or your younger son, a shirt?"

In order that she should complain. In order to make her complain. Our Rabbis explain, 'in order to make her storm,' that she pray. Penina had good intentions.¹¹ Maseches Bava Basra 16a.

So that she should complain: In order that Channah would be furious and fume.

So that she should harraeim: From [the same usage as] (Ezekiel 27:35), "raamu panim (contorted [their] faces)." And the [letter], reish, in harraeimah is accented, against the rules, to strengthen the reading - as with the kof in (Judges 20:13), "netakkenhu (we shall draw them) from the city," and others that are accented for the beauty of the reading. And Yonatan translated it [in the Targum] as, harraeimah, as "to make her jealous." Meaning to say, in order that she would be jealous, she would say things about childraising in front of her and that which is similar, so that she would be jealous and her heart would ache.

Her womb. Lit., opposite her womb, and so is every expression of the word .¹²See Rashi, Bereishis 7:16.בְּעַד

Because the Lord had shut up her womb: Meaning to say, and there was room for Peninah to anger her with this. And it is like our Rabbis, may their memory be blessed, said, "She said to her mockingly, 'Did you buy your older son a cloak today, or your younger son, a shirt?'" And she was bitter-spirited as well on account of her barrenness, and the matter would easily anger her.

Before (be'ad) her womb: Upon her womb, like (Joel 2:8), "before they fell before (be'ad) the loopholes"; (Leviticus 16:6), "and atoned before (be'ad) him" (in both of these cases, be'ad means, upon).