EXTRA · classical (not a TT unit)

Chayei Sarah 23:11 · EXTRA

Parashas Chayei Sarah · Passuk 23:11

The Complete Passuk

לֹֽא־אֲדֹנִ֣י שְׁמָעֵ֔נִי הַשָּׂדֶה֙ נָתַ֣תִּי לָ֔ךְ וְהַמְּעָרָ֥ה אֲשֶׁר־בּ֖וֹ לְךָ֣ נְתַתִּ֑יהָ לְעֵינֵ֧י בְנֵי־עַמִּ֛י נְתַתִּ֥יהָ לָּ֖ךְ קְבֹ֥ר מֵתֶֽךָ׃

“No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it; in the sight of the children of my people I give it to you; bury your dead.”

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Source Citation

Rashi on Bereishis 23:11 (classical source on this passuk; not listed as a numbered Torah Temimah unit here).

Lemma / focus: לא אדני / נתתי לך.

Sefaria

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text
לא אדני. לֹא תִּקְנֶה אוֹתָהּ בְּדָמִים: נתתי לך. הֲרֵי הוּא כְּמוֹ שֶׁנְּתַתִּיהָ לְךָ:

English: “No, my lord” — you are not to buy it with money. “I have given it to you” — see, it is as though I have already given it to you.

On the daf / in context: Ephron’s first reply frames the transfer as a gift rather than a sale; the perfect tense “natatti” is read as already accomplished in speech.

Type of Learning

Derash on the verse (Rashi) — not a formal named middah of the 13: the perfect tense is taken as a formal declaration of gift before the later weighing of silver.

What Is Learned

Ephron first presents the field and cave as already given, not as an object of purchase; only later does the transaction become a sale of four hundred shekels.