GEN1086 If he were not a prophet, it would not be necessary to return her? – This is the meaning: “Return the wife of the man,” and as to your saying: “Did he not say to me: ‘She is my sister’? he is a prophet and has divined your motives from your deportment.  If a visitor comes to a city, is it customary to ask him: “Is she your wife or your sister”! From here it is to be derived that a Noachide incurs the death penalty in such instances of capital offense where he could have learned the truth and did not. Makkoth 96 TEMIMAH-GEN 94

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GEN1106 Whence is it derived that if one asks his friend for forgiveness the latter is considered cruel if he does not forgive him?   From [this verse].  Baba Kamma 92a TEMIMAH-GEN 95

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GEN1107 Rava said to Rabbah b. Mari: “Whence do the Rabbis derive their formula: ‘If one prays for his friend, and he is in need of the same thing himself, he is answered first’? From the verse Genesis 20:17: ‘And Abraham prayed [for Avimelech],’ after which it is written: ‘And the Lord remembered Sarah as he said’ – as Abraham said on behalf of Avimelech” Baba Kamma 92a TEMIMAH-GEN 95

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GEN1116 And afterwards it is written Genesis 21:27: “And they both entered into a covenant.”  This teaches us that reproof leads to peace.   Sifrei, Deuternonomy.  TEMIMAH-GEN 98

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GEN1146 [This teaches us that a eulogy is for the honor of the dead] for if it were for the honor of the living would Sarah’s burial have been delayed for Abraham’s honor? Sanhedrin 46b TEMIMAH-GEN 105

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GEN1150 One whose dead one is before him is exempt from all of the mitzvoth of the Torah.  And though the body may not actually be in front of him, still, since it is incumbent upon him to bury it, it is considered as lying in front of him, as it is written: “And I will bury my dead one from before me” Berachot 18a TEMIMAH-GEN 105

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GEN1154 R. Elazar said: “The wicked say much, and do not do even a little.   How do we know this? From Efron.   In the beginning it is written: “four hundred silver shekels,” and in the end: “four hundred silver shekels current with the merchant,” Efron refusing to take anything but centenaria of far greater value than standard shekels Bava Metzia 87a TEMIMAH-GEN 106

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GEN1161 The Torah protects a man from all manner of evil in his youth, and provides him with a goodly end and expectation in his old age, as it is written: “And Abraham became old, and the Lord blessed Abraham with everything” Kiddushin 22a TEMIMAH-GEN 107

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GEN1169 From here it is to be derived that even though one is forbidden to partake of anything before he feeds his animals, this applies to food; but as regards drink, man takes precedence, as we find with Rivkah, who said: “Drink, and also your camels will I give to drink” MaGenesis Avraham 167:18 TEMIMAH-GEN 110

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GEN1186 “I will not eat” – From here it is to be derived that if food is set before one, he need not wait to be told to eat, for Eliezer said: “I will not eat until I have spoken my words” – and he had not yet been asked to eat.   But since food had been set before him, asking was not necessary. MaGenesis Avraham 107:18 TEMIMAH-GEN 111

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