Comentários de Citação sobre Gênesis 15:17

"Verses would contradict each other!" [Problem:] Even though we find many items that are in grammatical male and female, as it is written "Hand sent (fem.) to me and there was in it (masc.) a scroll" (Ezekiel 2:9), "The sun sets (fem.)" (Genesis 15:17) "The sun rises (masc.)" (Genesis 19:23), "The one (fem.) camp and he struck it (masc.) (Genesis 32:8); and so too in the language of Hazal we find, "A lamp that goes out (fem.) is not required for it" (Shabbat 21a) "Lamp that goes out (masc.)" (Shabbat 44a), "Your donkey left (fem.) Tarfon" (Sanhedrin 33a) "One who rents a donkey and she breaks off and goes to the mountain" (Baba Metzia 78a) "but before the owner of the cow could pull the donkey, the donkey died (masc.)", and so in many places. Solution: Whenever it is possible to teach [something interesting from the use of grammatical gender], we teach, and also with verses if there is a derashah. Alternatively: Because the mishnayot that teach their terminology after the biblical period, [Hazal] wanted to give them reason and specificity [to the biblical use of grammatical gender].

Who is faithful to keep His promise that He promised Abraham concerning the kingdoms, as the matter is stated (Gen. 15:17): “And behold a smoking stove, etc.”

neither did... pass by it Heb. עדה, passed, as we translate (Gen. 15 17), “which passed between these parts,” דִּעֲדָה.

[3] Your dwelling place and your birthplace, etc. Your dwelling place and your birthplace are from the land of the Canaanites; there I revealed Myself to your father Abraham [in the covenant] between the parts, and I let him know that you are going down to Egypt. With an arm raised on high, I redeemed you, and through the merit of your fathers, I drove out the Amorites and destroyed the Hittites.

ויבתר אתם AND HE SPLIT THEM — He divided each into two portions. This verse does not lose its literal meaning although there are various Midrashic explanations of it. Since He was making a covenant with him to keep His promise to give the land as an inheritance to his children — as it is written (Genesis 15:18), “In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying …” — and as it was the custom for parties to a covenant to divide an animal and to pass between its parts, as it is said elsewhere (Jeremiah 34:19) “who passed between the parts of the calf”, so also here the smoking furnace and the flaming torch which passed between the pieces (Genesis 15:17) were representative of the Divine Shechinah which is spoken of as fire.