Rashi (a Talmud legnagyobb szaktekintélye) szerint ez onnan ered, hogy Izsák három éves és egy napos korában tette Rebekát (Rivkát) magáévá: Idézet: http://www.tachash.org/metsudah/b06r.htm http://www.tachash.org/texis/vtx/chumash/+CwwBme8pKRXJwww/article.html (itt már nem érhető el!) Bereishis (Book 1: Genesis) Toldos Chapter 25 - Rashi (To Chumash Text) Verse 20: Forty years old.4 For when Avraham returned from Mount Moriah he received the news that Rivkah was born. And Yitzchok was then thirty-seven years old, for it was at that time that Sarah died. And from Yitzchok's birth until the Akeidah5 when Sarah died, there were thirty-seven years; because she was ninety at Yitzchok's birth and one hundred and twenty-seven at her death. For it is said: "The lifetime of Sarah etc.," [color=red]making Yitzchok thirty-seven years old, and at that time6 Rivkah was born.[/color] He waited for her until she was fit for marriage--- three years---whereupon he married her. http://www.tachash.org/metsudah/b06n.html#fn6 TOLDOS - NOTES ON RASHI COMMENTARY Chapter 25 - Text Notes 5 Avraham's binding of Yitzchok as a sacrifice. 6 I.e., when Yitzchok was 37.
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