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GENESIS — 37:3 coat

GEN1443 R. Chama b. Guria sad in the name of Rav: “One should never show favoritism to one son above the other, for because of the additional expenditure of the weight of two coins of fine wool for the many-colored coat that Jacob made for Joseph, beyond what he spent for his other sons, his brothers envied him, and the end result was that our forefathers went down to Egypt” Shabbat 10b TEMIMAH-GEN 154

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GENESIS — 38:1 left

GEN1471 R. Elazar said: If someone does a mitzvah and does not finish it, and someone else comes and finishes it, he [the first] is brought down from his greatness, As it is written: ‘And it was at that time that Judah ‘went down from his brothers [having initiated Joseph’s rescue, but not having consummated it]’ Sotah 13b TEMIMAH-GEN 158

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GENESIS — 38:10 displeasing

GEN1479 R. Ami said: “Whoever arouses licentious thought in himself is not admitted into the domain of the Holy One Blessed be He, it being written there: ‘And it was evil in the eyes of the L-or,’ and elsewhere Psalms 5:4: ‘For You are not a God who desires evildoers; evil shall not dwell with You’” Niddah 13b TEMIMAH-GEN 159

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GENESIS — 38:15 thought

GEN1482 He thought her a harlot because she covered her face? R. Elazar said: “Because she had kept her face covered in her father-in-law’s house [which explains why Judah did not recognize her now],” as R. Shmuel b. Nachmani said in the name of R. Jonathan: “Every daughter-in-law who is modest in her father-in-law’s house merits that kings and prophet descend from her.   Whence is this derived? From Tamar [kinGodavid; prophet-Isaiah]” Sotah 10b TEMIMAH-GEN 161

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