Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Kejadian 24:67

According to a Midrash cited by Rashi the report of Sarah’s death follows immediately upon the report of Rivkah’s birth to inform us that Sarah and Rivkah were viewed as if the younger one was merely the embodiment of the virtues of the senior one, i.e. as if Sarah and Rivkah were virtually one. Had Rivkah’s birth preceded the death of Sarah this would have been impossible; as it were, Sarah had to die first so that her soul could resurface in the body of Rivkah. The word אמו in 24,67 is unnecessary as we all know that Sarah had been Yitzchak’s mother. The reason the Torah wrote this word was to hint that her soul had been reincarnated in the body of Rivkah. When the Midrash stated that as soon as Rivkah moved into the tent of her mother-in-law, the light started burning again and the various phenomena which had been commonplace during Sarah’s lifetime began to manifest themselves anew, this is proof of the metaphysical continuity between Sarah and Rivkah.

your chiefs Scripture elides the second instance of a word which properly should be restated in the construct case. Compare, “toward the tent, [the tent] of Sarah his mother” [Genesis 24: 67] as well as “and the prophecy, [being the prophecy] of ‘Oded the prophet” [II Chronicles 15: 8]. Here, too, the meaning of the passage is “your chiefs, (namely, they who are the chiefs) of your tribes” (as in the similar passage “and their glory was lost, [the glory] of Ḥeshbon” [Numbers 21: 30] [this is one of two different explanations for that verse which ibn Ezra there offers — Translator]). The intent of this passage is to mention the leaders first, and then the elders, and then the officers, and afterwards all the men of Israel (i.e., the males), followed by the (male) children, and then the women, and finally, the aliens.

ותמת בת שוע, so that Yehudah should have brought his daughter-in-law into his house as a replacement for his wife. This is what Avraham had done when Yitzchok’s wife Rivkah moved into Sarah’s tent after the latter had died. (24,67) Yehudah’s failure to give Tamar his wife’s quarters to live in may have caused her to despair of having any kind of future in his family.

By the women of the tent. Sarah, of whom it is said, "Here she is, in the tent."⁴³Bereishis, 18:9. Rivkah, of whom it is said, "Yitzchak brought her to the tent."⁴⁴Ibid, 24:67. Rachel and Leah, of whom it is said, "He left Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent."⁴⁵Ibid, 31:33.