EXTRA · classical (not a TT unit)

Chayei Sarah 24:22 · EXTRA

Parashas Chayei Sarah · Passuk 24:22

The Complete Passuk

וַיְהִ֗י כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר כִּלּ֤וּ הַגְּמַלִּים֙ לִשְׁתּ֔וֹת וַיִּקַּ֤ח הָאִישׁ֙ נֶ֣זֶם זָהָ֔ב בֶּ֖קַע מִשְׁקָל֑וֹ וּשְׁנֵ֤י צְמִידִים֙ עַל־יָדֶ֔יהָ עֲשָׂרָ֥ה זָהָ֖ב מִשְׁקָלָֽם׃

When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold nose-ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her arms, ten shekels in weight.

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Source Citation

Rashi on Bereishis 24:22 (classical source on this passuk; not listed as a numbered Torah Temimah unit here).

Lemma / focus: בקע / שני צמידים.

Sefaria

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text
בקע. רֶמֶז לְשִׁקְלֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בֶּקַע לַגֻּלְגֹּלֶת: ושני צמידים. רֶמֶז לִשְׁנֵי לוּחוֹת מְצֻמָּדוֹת:

English: Beka — an allusion to the shekels of Israel, a beka per head. And two bracelets — an allusion to the two Tablets joined together.

On the daf / in context: The gifts are given a symbolic reading: the half-shekel weight points forward to the census shekel, and the two bracelets to the two Tablets.

Type of Learning

Derash on the verse (Rashi / midrashic symbolism) — not a formal named middah of the 13: the weights and the pair of bracelets are read as allusions to later Israelite institutions.

What Is Learned

The nose-ring of a beka alludes to the half-shekel of the census; the two bracelets allude to the two Tablets; the gifts already signal the future of Israel.