תּלמוד אויף בראשית 25:23

¹⁰Gen. rabba 20(12), 45(14), 63(8). Rebbi Joḥanan in the name of Rebbi Eleazar ben Rebbi Simeon: We do not find that the Omnipresent talked to a woman, except only to Sarah. But is there not written¹¹Gen. 3:16.: “To the woman He said: I shall increase,” etc.? Rebbi Jacob of Kefar Ḥanin¹²Elsewhere he is called “from Kefar Ḥanan”. said, through an interpreter¹³Adam is addressed by the Eternal in 3:9, the woman in 3:13, the snake in 3:14.. But is there not written¹⁴Gen. 25:23.: “The Eternal said to her, two peoples are in your womb”? Rebbi Abba bar Cahana said, the Word fell to her¹⁵A word about her fell to a prophet (in the opinion of Gen. rabba, Sem ben Noah.). Rebbi Biri said, how many weaver’s shuttles! The Holy One, praise to Him, desires to hear the talk of the just women: “He said no, but you laughed.¹⁶The only time we find a mention of God addressing a woman directly it is about an unimportant matter.”

R. Nahman b. Yitzchak derived the same lesson from here: “And the one nation shall be stronger than the other nation” (Genesis 25:23).

The school of R. Ishmael taught : Why are they called "cucumbers" [kishshuim] ? Because they are injurious [kashim] to the body like swords. But it is not so ! For lo, it is written, "And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb" (Gen. xxv. 23) — read not goyim "nations," but geim "lords"; and Rab Judah said in the name of Rab: These are Antoninus and Rabbi from whose table radish, lettuce and cucumbers were never absent either in Summer or Winter !