Talmud zu Bereschit 36:44

³⁸Babli 99a, Sifry Num. 112. It is written³⁹Num. 15:31.: For he showed contempt for the Eternal’s Word. Not only if he was contemptuous of the teachings of the Torah, from where if he denied one verse, one Aramaic expression, one argument de minore ad majus? The verse says, His command he violated. One verse, Lotan’s sister was Timna`⁴⁰Gen. 36:22; cf. Gen. rabba 82(15).. One Aramaic expression, Laban called it Yegar Sahadu̅ta̅⁴¹Gen. 31:47. In Gen. rabba 72(12) the expression is characterized as Syriac.. One argument de minore ad majus: For Cain would be avenged sevenfold, etc.⁴²Gen. 4:24. While Lemekh’s song violates the formal rules of an argument de minore ad majus, the verse is Divine approval of poetry..

Fire and hybrids were not created in the six days of Creation but they were in the Divine plan of the six days of Creation¹¹⁸Tosephta Berakhot 5:31, as reason for the benediction over fire as will be explained later. In the Tosephta, R. Yose disagrees and says the fire of hell was created on the Second Day; in the opinion of the Babli (Pesaḥim 54a) hell and its fire precede the Creation. The Yerushalmi takes no position on this. The text of this and the following two sections are also in Bereshit rabba 82(17); there is a parallel in Babli Pesaḥim 54a.
As is normal in the Talmudim, a proposition of subjects A B is discussed in order B A.. Hybrids (Gen.36:24): “These are the sons of Ẓiv‘on, Ayyah and Anah. He is the Anah who invented the yemim in the prairie.” What is yemim? Rebbi Yehudah¹¹⁹Son of Rebbi Simon, an Amora of the third/fourth generation in Galilee, known as preacher. ben Simon said ἡμίονος (“Half she-ass, mule”) and the rabbis say ἥμισυς (“half”), half horse and half donkey. These¹²⁰This and the following sentence are redundant. The sentences are copied here from Kil’aim 8:3. The reading “R. Jonah” is from the Venice print in Kil’aim, the Rome manuscript here, and Bereshit rabba. There is no Amora who is called Rebbi Jehudah (reading of the Venice print and Leyden ms.) without mention of his father’s name. In the Babli (Ḥullin79a), the criterion is ascribed to Rav Papa, fifth generation Babylonian Amora. are its signs: Rebbi Jonah says, if it has small ears, its mother is a horse and its father a donkey. If they are large, its mother is a donkey and its father a horse. Rebbi Mana ordered those of the patriarch’s estate: If you want to buy a mule¹²¹Latin mulus,i, m. “mule”., you should buy one with small ears whose mother is a horse and whose father is a donkey.

The following names may not be broken up: Yisra’el, Ga’tham,⁵²A name occurring in Gen. 36, 11, 16, 1 Chron. 1, 36. E.V. Gatam. Poṭifar, Nebukadneẓẓar.⁵³V and H unnecessarily repeat צמיאל, עוריאל, צורישדי.