What’s The Nafkah Minah? Rabbi Anthony Manning

what's the Naina why do I even care how old y was at the age of the AA there's a tius that says no you've misunderstood when you see the MIM arguing about how old y was at the AA they're not arguing about how old Yak was at the AA they're arguing about how to read the text is history what is alive the text the text is alive and the na in it is this the story of the AA and the story of Rifka are there to teach me on a certain level how to be a better Jew that's why I'm learning them I'm not interested in some sort of uh abstract historical reality now of course there are real historical things going on in the text of course there are but that's not the purpose of why I'm learning them I'm learning them to draw a message out of the ARA and you get a very different message from the ARA if yakis 37 and allowing himself to be tied up then if Yak was 11 years old and being held down by his father screaming what's going on what's going on let me go it's a very very different message