<span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','El Rambam explica esta parte del versículo en el <b>1º Capítulo</b> de Las Leyes de Comportamiento según la Torá.',event);" onmouseout="Close();"> Porque yo lo he conocido, sé que mandará a sus hijos y a su casa después de sí, que guarden el camino del Señor, haciendo justicia y juicio,</span> <span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','El Rambam explica esta parte del versículo en el <b>1º Capítulo</b> de Las Leyes de Comportamiento según la Torá.',event);" onmouseout="Close();"> para que haga venir el Señor sobre Abraham lo que ha hablado acerca de él.</span>
Tosefta Sotah
Said Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai: There were four matters that Rabbi Akiva expounded upon [midrashically], but I prefer my own words to his. Rabbi Akiva expounded (Gen 21:9), "And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian that she bore to Abraham m'tzachek (lit., 'laughing' or 'sporting')." Laughter is not what is being spoken of here; rather, idol worship, as it is said [during the sin of the golden calf] (Ex. 32:6), "And the people sat down to eat and drink, and [then] they arose to sport (l'tzachek)." It teaches that our Matriarch Sarah saw Ishmael building high places and hunting for locusts, and offering it up and turning it into smoke for idol worship. Rabbi Eliezer, the son of Rabbi Yosei HaGalili says, laughter (tzachok) is not spoken of here; rather sexual immorality, as it is said [in the matter of Potiphar's wife] (Gen 39:17), "The [Hebrew] servant came to me, etc., to sport (l'tzachek) with me." It teaches that our Matriarch Sarah saw Ishmael trampling the gardens and afflicting the women. Rabbi Yishmael says, the word tzachok means nothing other than the spilling of blood, as it is said (2 Sam. 2:14-16), "And Abner said to Joab, 'Let the young men arise and sport (visachaku) before us', etc. And they got up and they were counted by number, etc. And each man grabbed his neighbor by the head and [stuck] his sword into his neighbor's side, and they fell together." It teaches that our Matriarch Sarah was seeing Ishmael taking a bow and arrow and shooting them toward Isaac [as though in sport], as it is said (Prov. 26:19-20, JPS tr.), "Like a madman scattering deadly firebrands, arrows, is one who cheats his fellow and says, 'I was only joking.'" And I say, God forbid that there would be such things occurring in the house of this same tzaddik (i.e., Abraham)! Is it possible that the one for whom it is said (Gen. 18:19), "For I have known him in order that he command [his sons and his household after him, that they shall heed the path of God, to perform righteousness and justice]," that there would be idol worship, sexual immorality, and the spilling of blood in his household?! Rather, "tzachok" is only mentioned here in connection with inheritance, for from the time that our Patriarch Isaac was born to our Patriarch Abraham, everyone was joyous, and they said, "A son is born to Abraham! A son is born to Abraham! He shall inherit eternity, and he shall take a two portions." And Ishmael laughed to himself, and he said, "Don't be foolish! Don't be foolish! I am the first-born and I will take two portions." Then, at the conclusion of the matter, you learn, as it is said (Gen. 21:10), "for the son of this maidservant [shall not inherit with my son, with Isaac]." And I prefer my words to the words of Rabbi Akiva.