Comentários de Citação sobre Jó 31:17

In the Midrash (Bereshit Rabbah 30:8): The Rabbis say, "Everyone in whose regard haya (was) is stated, he fed others and sustained them. Noah, about whom it is stated (Genesis 6:9), 'he was a righteous man,' fed and sustained [the animals] all twelve months, as it is stated (Genesis 6:21), 'And you, take for you [from all food that is eaten…and it shall be for you and for them for food].' Joseph – 'Joseph provided for his father and his brothers' (Genesis 47:12). Moses fed and sustained Israel for forty years in the wilderness. Job – 'I ate my bread alone, [and an orphan did not partake of it].' (Job 31:17). This was meant as a rhetorical question. Mordekhai fed and sustained [others]." Rabbi Yudan said, "One time he went around to all the wet nurses, but did not immediately find a wet nurse for Esther, and he nursed her himself." Rabbi Berekhiah and Rabbi Abahu said in the name of Rabbi Eliezer, "Milk came into him [his breasts] and he nursed her." [When] Rabbi Abahu expounded this in public, the audience laughed as he spoke [of a man producing milk]. He said to them, "But is it not [stated in] a mishna (Makhshirin 6:7): Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar says, 'The milk of a male is pure.'"

“From Asher his bread is rich.” Since Asher was responsible for supplying oil to the Temple for meal offerings and other Temple needs, and it is known that all abundance and plenty comes to the world through the Temple, therefore it says that from Asher comes the rich bread of Israel — rich [shemeinah] corresponding to “oil [shemen].” And he will provide royal delicacies, for he will give to the Temple, and the Temple will give to the whole world, to king and commoner alike. Alternatively, it prophesies that Asher would be charitable, and therefore all would praise him — sons and daughters — as it is written for daughters have called me fortunate (Genesis 30:13), and Moses said Most blessed of sons is Asher (Deuteronomy 33:24). And he will give to the poor rich bread and royal delicacies, not from inferior quality, like that person who fed the poor fattened poultry [referring to a story in Ketubot 67b], and as it is written Did I eat my morsel alone (Job 31:17) — meaning that even my own portion of fine bread designated for me, I did not eat alone.