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EXTRA on Lech Lecha 16:13

EXTRA · Rashi on Genesis 16:13 / Bereshit Rabbah 45:10 · Parashas Lech Lecha · Passuk 16:13

Complete Passuk

וַתִּקְרָ֤א שֵׁם־ה׳֙ הַדֹּבֵ֣ר אֵלֶ֔יהָ אַתָּ֖ה אֵ֣ל רֳאִ֑י…

And she called the name of Hashem who spoke to her, “You are El Ro’i”…

Source

Rashi on Genesis 16:13 — Rashi cites Bereshit Rabbah 45:10 for “El Ro’i” as the God who sees the humiliation of the oppressed.

Core Text

אַתָּה אֵל רֳאִי — נָקוּד חֲטַף קָמָץ, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהוּא שֵׁם דָּבָר, אֱלוֹהַּ הָרְאִיָּה, שֶׁרוֹאֶה בְּעֶלְבּוֹן שֶׁל עֲלוּבִין.

English: “You are a God of seeing” — the word is punctuated with a chataf-kamatz because it is a noun, meaning “a God of seeing,” who sees the humiliation to which people are subjected by others.

On the daf / in context: Hagar is the first person in the Torah to give a name to God. Rashi, citing Bereshit Rabbah 45:10, emphasizes Divine attentiveness to the suffering of the lowly; the well Beer-lahai-ro’i memorializes that encounter.

Type of Learning: Custom (naming of God by Hagar)

What Is Learned: The oppressed Egyptian maidservant becomes the first to name God in the Torah, teaching that Divine seeing extends to those outside the primary covenant line.

Supplementary classical material not listed by Torah Temimah under this exact passuk.

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