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Halakhah su Genesi 25:30

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר עֵשָׂ֜ו אֶֽל־יַעֲקֹ֗ב הַלְעִיטֵ֤נִי נָא֙ מִן־הָאָדֹ֤ם הָאָדֹם֙ הַזֶּ֔ה כִּ֥י עָיֵ֖ף אָנֹ֑כִי עַל־כֵּ֥ן קָרָֽא־שְׁמ֖וֹ אֱדֽוֹם׃

Esaù disse a Giacobbe: Fammi deh! trangugiare di queste tante cose rosse, poiché io sono spossato. Quindi è che fu chiamato Edòm.

Contemporary Halakhic Problems, Vol VI

"Hal'itehu19This verb occurs but once in Scripture in Genesis 25:30: “Hal’iteni min ha-adom ha-adom ha-zeh -- Pour into me, I pray thee, some of this red, red [pottage].” Ibn Ezra comments that the term “hal’iteni” connotes “eating.” The various English translations render the phrase “Let me swallow” or “Let me gulp.” Neither of those translations captures the hif’il, or causative, voice of the verb. The Soncino translation of the talmudic dictum is “Stuff the wicked.” The Bet Yehudah Yiddish-language translation of the passage renders the phrase as “Pour into me.”
See also Bereshit Rabbah 63:30. That translation was originally preferred by this writer as most accurately capturing the nuanced meaning of the text. However, felicity of English style prompts translation as “Gorge the wicked.”
la-rasha ve-yamot20R. Judah Shaviv, Teḥumin, X (5748), p. 157, note 3, suggests that the phrase “until he dies” is a reference to Esau’s exclamation “Behold I am about to die” (Genesis 25:32) in conjunction with his demand “Pour into me.”
– Gorge the wicked and let him die" is formulated as a principle of comportment by the Gemara, Bava Kamma 69a, with regard to thieves who steal fruit yielded by a sapling within the first four years after it has been planted. The fruit of the first three years is entirely forbidden as orlah; the fruit that grows during the fourth year, known as neta reva'i, or, in the case of grapes, as kerem reva'i, must either be transported to Jerusalem and consumed within the walls of the city or redeemed by exchanging the fruit for coins which must then be expended for the same purpose.
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