By Sam Shamoun (Original article 1, 2, 3)
In this post, I quote a rabbinic Jewish source refuting the lie that Rebecca was three years old when Isaac married her. This will help to expose and silence all those Muhammadans who appeal to rabbis like Rashi who erroneously believed this lie. It is obvious why these Muslims do so since they are desperately trying to find a way to justify the fact that their prophet was an immoral pedophile and that their deity is an evil misogynist who sanctions adultery, rape, and pedophilia. They erroneously assume that if they can find certain rabbis who were just as sick and perverted as their prophet this then somehow justifies their belief in an immoral pedophile who masqueraded as a prophet of God.
Here’s the reference:
ויהי יצחק בן ארבעים שנה פרש״י המתין לה עד שתהא ראויה לביאה בת שלש שנים ונשאה. חז״ק. דבשילהי ספרי מסיק ג’, שנותיהן שוין רבקה וקהת ובן עזאי והם חיו מאה ושלשים ושלש שנים ואי סלקא דעתך שלא היתה רבקה אלא בת שלש שנים כשנישאת ליצחק נמצא חסר משנותיה אחת עשרה שנה, כיצד בת ג׳ שנים נשאת ובת עשרים ושלש כשילדה כמו שפרש״י ויעקב היה בן ששים ושלש שנים כשנתברך כמו שפרש״י וארבע עשרה שנטמן בבית שם ועבר ועשרים שנה שמש בבית לבן ושנה וחצי בסוכות וששה חדשים בבית אל דבאותו פרק נתבשר על מיתת אמו כמו שפרש״י גבי אלון בכות, שים עשרים ושלש שהיתה כשילדה עם תשעים ותשע שנים שיש משילדה עד שמתה לא יהיו רק מאה עשרים ושתים לכך נראה שהיתה בת ארבע עשרה שנה כשנשאת. וכן גרסינן בסדר עולם כשחזר אברהם מן העקידה נתבשר שנולדה רבקה פי׳ שנתבשר שנולדה כבר כשעברו אחת עשרה שנה וראיה לדבר נקרא לנערה ונשאלה את פיה פירש רש״י שאין משיאין את הגדולה אלא מדעתה.
ויהי יצחק בן ארבעים שנה,
Rashi’s comment on this apparently historically irrelevant detail, is that the Torah informed us that Yitzchok, after marrying Rivkah, waited for three years until she was old enough to engage in intercourse and become pregnant. (14 years old) [In his commentary on Genesis 24,16, item 91 Rabbi Kasher in his Torah Shleymah, deals at length with the conflicting opinions about Rivkah’s age at marriage. Sifri on Deuteronomy 34,7 claims that Rivkah lived to the age of 133 years, same age as that of Kehat, son of Levi. Our author calculates that if Rivkah had only been 3 years at the time when she was married that calculation would be wrong by eleven years. He proceeds to give details tracing the various ages of our patriarchs and matriarchs down to the birth of Kehat. He also understands the Midrash according to which Avraham heard about the fact that Betuel had fathered Rivkah as not meaning that this had occurred at the same time as the akeydah, but that Avraham had belatedly heard about this. As proof that Rivkah could not have been only 3 years old when Eliezrer met her, he cites the fact that her brother and mother refer to her as a נערה (naarah https://biblehub.com/hebrew/5291.htm), a term never applied to someone younger than 12 and a half years of age. The well known traditional historic text known as seder olam in its first chapter, also writes that when Avraham returned from the Akeydah he was told that Rivkah had been born. The meaning of that Midrash was that she had been born some time ago. Another proof that she was of age is that we have an iron clad rule that parents must not marry off a girl who has already reached puberty unless she has been asked and given her consent.] The fact that in our chapter Rivkah’s family proceeds to ask for her consent proves that without it the parents could not have married her off. (Chizkuni, Genesis 25:20, translated and annotated by Eliyahu Munk Link; emphasis mine)
FURTHER READING
Islam – The Religion of Pedophilia
MUHAMMAD: AN IMMORAL ADULTEROUS MISOGYNIST
ALLAH’S MISOGYNY AND ABUSE OF WOMEN
Nice blog!!
Thank you sister in Christ.