EXTRA · classical (not a TT unit)

Toldos 25:20 · EXTRA

Parashas Toldos · Passuk 25:20

The Complete Passuk

וַיְהִ֤י יִצְחָק֙ בֶּן־אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה בְּקַחְתּ֣וֹ אֶת־רִבְקָ֗ה בַּת־בְּתוּאֵל֙ הָֽאֲרַמִּ֔י מִפַּדַּ֖ן אֲרָ֑ם אֲח֛וֹת לָבָ֥ן הָאֲרַמִּ֖י ל֥וֹ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

Yitzchak was forty years old when he took Rivkah, daughter of Betuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Lavan the Aramean, as his wife.

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Source Citation

Rashi on Bereishis 25:20 (classical source on this passuk; not listed as a numbered Torah Temimah unit here).

Lemma / focus: בן ארבעים שנה.

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Core Text of Chazal

Core Text
שֶׁהֲרֵי כְּשֶׁבָּא אַבְרָהָם מֵהַר הַמּוֹרִיָּה נִתְבַּשֵּׂר שֶׁנּוֹלְדָה רִבְקָה, וְיִצְחָק הָיָה בֶּן ל״ז שָׁנָה… עֶשֶׂר שָׁנִים הִמְתִּין לָהּ עַד שֶׁנַּעֲשֵׂית בַּת שָׁלֹשׁ וְהִשִּׂיאָהּ.

English: When Avraham returned from Mount Moriah he was told that Rivkah had been born, and Yitzchak was then thirty-seven… He waited ten years until she was fit for marriage and married her, and then waited another ten years until she was thirteen… thus he was forty.

On the daf / in context: The age of forty is coordinated with the timeline from the Akeidah and Rivkah’s birth; the midrash fills the years between birth and marriage.

Type of Learning

Derash on the verse (Rashi / midrashic chronology) — not a formal named middah of the 13: the stated age is read against the narrative chronology from Mount Moriah.

What Is Learned

Yitzchak was forty when he married Rivkah; the years from the Akeidah and her birth until the marriage account for that age.