וַיֹּאמֶר֮ הָֽאָדָם֒ זֹ֣את הַפַּ֗עַם עֶ֚צֶם מֵֽעֲצָמַ֔י וּבָשָׂ֖ר מִבְּשָׂרִ֑י לְזֹאת֙ יִקָּרֵ֣א אִשָּׁ֔ה כִּ֥י מֵאִ֖ישׁ לֻֽקֳחָה־זֹּֽאת׃
아담이 가로되 이는 내 뼈 중의 뼈요 살 중의 살이라 이것을 남자에게서 취하였은즉 여자라 칭하리라 하니라
Siftei Chakhamim
The holy language. For if it was another language, there would not be only one language [on earth, as the holy language remained until this point.]. For all agree that the world was created with the holy language, as Rashi explained on (2:23): “The man said, ‘This at last... shall be called אשה.’”
Siftei Chakhamim
Children were born to him. Rashi used the expression “children were born to him” rather than “he knew his wife” because otherwise Rashi would be implying that Adam knew her only after he was exiled, not before. [And this is not true,] for earlier, on the verse of “This at last is bone of my bones...” (2:23), Rashi says: “Adam attempted to find a mate amongst all the animals... until he discovered Chavah.” This implies that Adam had relations with Chavah at that point. This answers another question: How does Rashi know that Adam’s “knowing his wife” before he was exiled included conception and birth as well? Perhaps it was referring only to relations. The answer is: “This at last is bone of my bones...” already taught us that Adam had relations. Thus, the verse “The man knew his wife...” perforce [includes conception and birth].
Rabbeinu Bahya
מחצית השקל בשקל הקדש, “one half shekel of the sacred shekel.” According to the plain meaning of the text we have to consider that Moses’ position amongst the people was equal to that of crowned heads of government in other nations as it states in Deut. 33,5: “he was king in Yeshurun.” This is why a silver coin had been minted in his honor. This coin was of a certain weight and the silver it was cast from was free from impurities. The reason this coin was called קדש, “sacred,” was because all the commandments are “sacred,” and for the performance of some of the commandments it is necessary to pay out such a coin or multiples of it. In other words, the coin basically served a sacred purpose. One example of the need for such coins was the redemption of firstborn male babies of the average Israelite who had to be redeemed by a priest in exchange for 5 such coins (or its equivalent weight in silver). Most of chapter 27 at the end of the Book of Leviticus is devoted to the ערכין legislation which stipulates that people having made vows involving the evaluation of their own persons or others have to discharge these vows by paying varying amounts of multiples of such a coin as described here. When we call our Torah the “sacred Torah,” we are motivated by similar considerations. Even the Hebrew language is called לשון הקדש, “the sacred tongue,” as it is the foremost language in which sacred matters are written about and are discussed by the scholars.
Even the names of the angels have the adjective “sacred” attached to them. Names of angels such as Gavriel, Rafael, etc., all reflect their association with the sacred name of G’d, hence the letters א-ל at the end of their respective names. This is also reflected in Psalms 68,18 רכב אלו-הים רבותים אלפי שנאן ה' בהם, “G’d’s chariots are myriads upon myriads, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them.” [The idea of calling chariots owned by man “G’d’s chariots” is justifiable only when such chariots are placed in the service of sacred duties. Ed.] Hebrew is also the tongue in which the universe was created. [The directives were issued in Hebrew. Ed.] Our sages (Bereshit Rabbah 18,6) are on record saying that the world was created with לשון הקדש, the sacred tongue. They base this on Genesis 2,23 לזאת יקרא אשה כי מאיש לוקחה זאת “this (woman) shall be called אשה, as it has been taken (derived) from איש.” The various names Adam gave to his wife and sons such as חוה, קין, הבל all indicate that their meanings are based on the Hebrew language which therefore must have been the original language spoken after Adam was created. All the other names mentioned in the Book of Genesis (at least prior to the building of the Tower) were based on meanings in the Hebrew language.
Eventually, all the other nations will revert to the use of Hebrew as all peoples had done prior to G’d confusing man’s languages at the time of the building of the Tower (Genesis 11,7). We know this on the authority of Tzefaniah 3,9: “for then I will make all the peoples pure of speech, so that they will all invoke the Lord by name, etc.”
The reason the Torah legislates that the males to be counted contribute “half” a shekel (instead of a whole one), is because when the Israelites served the golden calf they had violated the Ten Commandments, and the coin called “half shekel” weighs ten geyrah. This is why every male Israelite who had reached the age of accountability vis-a-vis the celestial court, i.e. the age of 20, had to pay the ten geyrah as a symbol of the sin of which he had been guilty. Remarkably, this half shekel amounted in value to only one tenth of the value of the five shekalim needed to redeem a firstborn son of an Israelite as the Torah wrote: “and the amount he is to be redeemed by is the value of five shekalim which is twenty geyrah each, ” (Numbers 18,16).
Even the names of the angels have the adjective “sacred” attached to them. Names of angels such as Gavriel, Rafael, etc., all reflect their association with the sacred name of G’d, hence the letters א-ל at the end of their respective names. This is also reflected in Psalms 68,18 רכב אלו-הים רבותים אלפי שנאן ה' בהם, “G’d’s chariots are myriads upon myriads, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them.” [The idea of calling chariots owned by man “G’d’s chariots” is justifiable only when such chariots are placed in the service of sacred duties. Ed.] Hebrew is also the tongue in which the universe was created. [The directives were issued in Hebrew. Ed.] Our sages (Bereshit Rabbah 18,6) are on record saying that the world was created with לשון הקדש, the sacred tongue. They base this on Genesis 2,23 לזאת יקרא אשה כי מאיש לוקחה זאת “this (woman) shall be called אשה, as it has been taken (derived) from איש.” The various names Adam gave to his wife and sons such as חוה, קין, הבל all indicate that their meanings are based on the Hebrew language which therefore must have been the original language spoken after Adam was created. All the other names mentioned in the Book of Genesis (at least prior to the building of the Tower) were based on meanings in the Hebrew language.
Eventually, all the other nations will revert to the use of Hebrew as all peoples had done prior to G’d confusing man’s languages at the time of the building of the Tower (Genesis 11,7). We know this on the authority of Tzefaniah 3,9: “for then I will make all the peoples pure of speech, so that they will all invoke the Lord by name, etc.”
The reason the Torah legislates that the males to be counted contribute “half” a shekel (instead of a whole one), is because when the Israelites served the golden calf they had violated the Ten Commandments, and the coin called “half shekel” weighs ten geyrah. This is why every male Israelite who had reached the age of accountability vis-a-vis the celestial court, i.e. the age of 20, had to pay the ten geyrah as a symbol of the sin of which he had been guilty. Remarkably, this half shekel amounted in value to only one tenth of the value of the five shekalim needed to redeem a firstborn son of an Israelite as the Torah wrote: “and the amount he is to be redeemed by is the value of five shekalim which is twenty geyrah each, ” (Numbers 18,16).