Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Genesis 29:16

And they said: “Let us build for us a city and a tower” etc. [Genesis 11:4]. The city mentioned is a small city, as you say “and the name of the small one [is] Rachel” [Genesis 29:16)]. And the tower is “a tower of strength is the name of HaShem” (Proverbs 18:10). And this “and his top in heaven [Genesis 11:4] alludes to the uppermost heavens. “And let us make for us a name” [Genesis 11:4]. The one who knows the explanation of “name”, recognizes their evil thought. Because they wanted to separate the Shekinah from the building, and in the separation were the forces of impurity, flowing in her [the Shekinah] from the contamination of the snake, and this is “and let us burn [them] to fire-hardened bricks” [Genesis 11:3]. In the secret of “The house of our holiness and our splendor became a conflagration of fire” (Isaiah 64:10) and in the secret of “because he has made unclean the sanctuary of HaShem” [Numeri 19:20]. “And the brick was for them as stone” [Genesis 11:3]. This secret is known to you in the secret of the Dimensions of the Body [Shi’ur Qomah]. And I cannot explain it. And the stone is the Stone of Foundation, and they were giving a small dimension against a large one. And after they had built the city and the tower according to their shape, they said to make for them a name to be conducted by it, so that they would not be given into the hand of an other leader.

בנתי....בנתי The word is written twice, referring once to Leah and Rachel and the second time to the handmaids, because Bilhah and Zilpah were also his daughters from a concubine (Genesis Rabbah 74:13).