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Tuesday, June 29, 2021
The four fathers
Parshas Hashavua
פנחס
ושם בת אשר שרח
Who was Serach's father?
1. אשר
2. ישוי
3. בן
של ישוי (son of Yishvi)
4. מלכיאל
The Ramban (26:46)
says the תרגום אונקלס translates
ושם בת אשר שרח,- "ושום ברת אתת אשר סרח
The name of the daughter of Osher’s wife was שרח.
(She wasn’t Osher’s daughter but his wife’s daughter)
The Ramban explains, Serach’s mother was married and
had only one child. (Serach)
אשר married her after her husband died.*
The תכלת מרדכי (Kur
Zahav) says that she was
the daughter of ישוי the son of אשר. When ישוי died, אשר
married his daughter in law. (איסור דאורייתא)**
A second possibility is that she was the granddaughter
of ישוי and אשר married his son Yishvi’s daughter
in law (איסור דרבנן)
The ספר הישר says she was the daughter of
(מלכיאל בן עילם (בן שם בן נח,
*
Shu"t Chasam Sofer E,H,76 proves from here the
Halacha in Rema Ch.M. 42:15 "adopted children can
be called children in documents etc." ** קודם מתן תורה
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