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| + | {{heb|תרח אבי אברם מופיע בסוף רשימה ארוכה של הדורות הקודמים לו. מעניין, שהוליד רק בגיל מאוחר: שהרי אביו נחור הוליד אותו בגיל עשרים ותשע. ושרוג אבי נחור בגיל שלושים שנה, רעו אבי שרוג בגיל שלושים ושתיים, וכך הלאה עד לשם, שהיה בן מאה בהולידו את ארפכשד שנתיים אחר המבול. למה נמנע מלהוליד עד גיל כה מבוגר?}} | ||
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| + | {{heb|עדיין לא מצאתי הסבר לדבר הזה אצל מפרשי התורה, ולכן אנסה לפתח תשובה לשאלה בע"ה. ידוע מן [http://www.tsel.org/torah/midrashraba/noach.html המדרש בראשית רבה] שתרח היה עובד עבודה זרה, ושהייתה לו חנות בה מכר פסילי אלילים לעבודתה. נראה לי אולי, שהיה כל כך עסוק בעולם ההבלים ההוא, עד שלא השקיע ולא כלום בחיי המשפחה. הוא באמת האמין בעבודה זרה -- כל כך, שלא עסק אלה בה.}} | ||
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| + | {{heb|אותו מדרש אומר לנו שלתרח הגיע עולם הבא -- וזה תמה, שעובד ע"ז לא יכול לקבל שכר כזה. אלא למדך שחזר בתשובה ממעשיו הרעים, אחרי שאברם בנו הראה לו שאין כל אמת בעבודה זרה, זולתי לה' בלבד. ואולי בא הכתוב ללמדנו שאפילו אדם שעבד ע"ז כל חייב והיה שקוע בה כמו תרח -- אפילו לאחד כזה יש אפשרות לחזור בתשובה אל ה' יתברך.}} | ||
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| + | Terah the father of Abram appears at the end of a long list of previous generations. It is interesting that he is listed as having fathered only at an advanced age: for his own father Nahor fathered him when he was twenty-nine. And Serug, Nahor's father at thirty; and Reu, Serug's father at thirty-two, and so forth up until Shem, who was one hundred when he fathered Arpachshad two years after the Flood. Why did Terah keep from procreation until such an advanced age? | ||
| + | I still haven't found an answer to this matter among the Torah commentators, so I will try to develop an answer with God's help. It is known from the [http://www.tsel.org/torah/midrashraba/noach.html Midrash Rabbah Bereshit] that Terah was an idol worshipper, and that he owned a store where he sold the idols used in that worship. It seems to me, perhaps, that he was so involved in the vanity of the world of idolatry that he didn't invest even a minimal amount of time in family life. He ''really'' believed in idolatry -- so much so, that he didn't involve himself in anything else. | ||
| + | The same ''midrash'' tells us that Terah received the reward of the "World to Come" -- and this is puzzling, as we know that an idolater cannot receive such a reward. Rather, this comes to tell us that he repented his evil deeds after Abram his son demonstrated to him the falseness of idolatry, and that there is no truth in idolatry, rather only in worship of God. Perhaps it comes to inform us that even a person who worshiped idols his entire life and was immersed in it as much as Terah -- even such a person has the option to return in repentance to God, may He be blessed. | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:17, 29 October 2009
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And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran (Gen 11:26)
Terah the father of Abram appears at the end of a long list of previous generations. It is interesting that he is listed as having fathered only at an advanced age: for his own father Nahor fathered him when he was twenty-nine. And Serug, Nahor's father at thirty; and Reu, Serug's father at thirty-two, and so forth up until Shem, who was one hundred when he fathered Arpachshad two years after the Flood. Why did Terah keep from procreation until such an advanced age?
I still haven't found an answer to this matter among the Torah commentators, so I will try to develop an answer with God's help. It is known from the Midrash Rabbah Bereshit that Terah was an idol worshipper, and that he owned a store where he sold the idols used in that worship. It seems to me, perhaps, that he was so involved in the vanity of the world of idolatry that he didn't invest even a minimal amount of time in family life. He really believed in idolatry -- so much so, that he didn't involve himself in anything else.
The same midrash tells us that Terah received the reward of the "World to Come" -- and this is puzzling, as we know that an idolater cannot receive such a reward. Rather, this comes to tell us that he repented his evil deeds after Abram his son demonstrated to him the falseness of idolatry, and that there is no truth in idolatry, rather only in worship of God. Perhaps it comes to inform us that even a person who worshiped idols his entire life and was immersed in it as much as Terah -- even such a person has the option to return in repentance to God, may He be blessed.
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