Bereishis - 5th Portion

Join me as we learn together today. The fifth Torah reading of the portion of Boratious chapter 4 verse 19 and took two wives. The first wife's name was Ada is Tila and the second wife's name was Sila. Over here, Rashi explained to us why does it start telling us about and his two wives? And it tells us as follows in verse 19. Why does he tell us about if he was in the previous ones, he just told us who gave birth to who? He doesn't tell us who their wives were. He didn't have to explain all this about his wives. Ella coming to teach us to teach us about the end of what he's going to say that God kept to his promise that for seven generations nobody will take revenge of cen until after seven generations. So himself was the sixth generation to after he gave birth their children and now he became the seventh gener they became the seventh generation of and he is the one that killed the is what we find later on that in verse 23 that we'll soon learn that tells his wife that I killed the person that I killed who he was the one that killed two wives. Why did he take two wives? So, Rashi explains to us this was the uh behavior of the terrible behavior of the people of the flood that they would marry two wives, one for childbearing, for procreating and just one for marital relations. the one that was for marital relations. They would give her to drink a cup that had in it a potion that would make her sterile. So she should not be able to be give to have children and they would decorate her like a bride and give her sweets to eat that she should be beautiful. The however her friend the second wife Nufa was considered disgusting. was mourning like a widow. This is what Eve gives the explanation that he shepherds a a a woman who can't give birth and for the widow who stands who is not good for her that she will never be able to that he does not do any kindness for the widow. This is explained in the agotic interpretations in the Talmud in the tracted of in the tracted of in the chapter of and the attracted of Sanhedrin. Now he tells us about the two wives he was the woman of Vivia which was childbearing because she was considered disgusting by him and removed from him. The word comes from the word surah, removed, neglected. She was the woman that he used for marital relations. Why was she called? Because it comes from the word shade for the name that she's always constantly sitting in his shade, sitting together with him enclosed him. These are the explanations that are given in the Medisha. Verse 20. And [clears throat] gave birth to he was the forerunner of all those who live in tents and keep her. Rashi tells us what does it mean that he was the forerunner of one that had tents and had cha and uh had flock tells us as follows. It doesn't mean that he was the really the father of every type of shepherd or a person who had um type of tents, but he was one of the first shepherds that would go into the desert into the deserts. Being that he was a shepherd with many different cattle, he would travel from place to place and he wouldn't have a special place where he would stay. And therefore would also sit in temporary tents and that would be his lodging. Why? Because he would take his cattle to all different places to give them pasture. When he would finish the pasturing in this place, he would go and situate himself and set his tent in another place. This is the simple interpretation. The commentaries, the explanations in the med say it alludes to the fact that he would build homes for idolatry which were called cattle as the verse says the idol which would get God angry. So too later when it talks about his brother, the one who made the um the flute and the harp, this was as well to sing for the idolatry. In verse 21, the name of his brother was he was the forerunner for all those who play with the harp and the flute. Gamalda also gave birth to a son as to his name was Tulkayan. He was umbelian who used to sharpen old copper and iron tools and tuen's sister's name was Nama. What is this Tuvulen? Why does it tell us about Tuvalken? Sarashi explains to us as follows in verse 19. Why was his name called Tuvalken? Because he was able to perfect the masterership, the special talent that his grandfather had, which the the talent of Cayenne, which was the practice of kind of murder. Tuval, the word tuval comes from the word tavlin, like spice. It's making it better. He spiced it and perfected it. The practice of because he was able the same way Ken was able to kill somebody without any armor, without any ammunition. So here he made it even better because he made ammunition to be able to kill somebody. He was the one making arms and ammunition for murderers to kill people. What does it mean that he was able to perfect the copper and the iron? He sharpened it. This type of tools which was made of copper barzel and of iron and this was these different tools were used by people that plow and as well as we mentioned ammunition for people to kill. Where do we find it? The word lees means to sharpen as it says in the verse in that the Satan sharpened his eyes at me. Rashi continues, "The word over here is not a verb, not something that happened in the past, but something which is happening currently with poet the if you look at the canellation which is there is a cotton he calls it is on the at the end of the word and it has a sele. So therefore the way you would pronounce it is meaning that he would sharpen and polish all these types of ammunition which was used for copper and iron. So Rash is explaining to us how we understand an interpretation of a word when the katan is called the two dots that are next to each other and the accent is on the last syllable. Thereby it gives us the noun where it makes it as a noun has the accent where it would be a noun if the accent would be on the first syllable. Who is this girl nama and why is it important to mention her name and the rashi explains us the reason why over here it tells us that the sis who the sister was because she is the going she is going to be the wife of Noah and therefore he mentions who she is. This concludes the fifth day of the Torah reading of Miracius.