EXTRA · Side-ring · Parashas Vayeitzei · Passuk 29:21
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And Yaakov said to Lavan, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may come to her.”
Classical source beyond the TT-numbered main ring: Rashi on Bereishis 29:21, citing Bereshit Rabbah 70:18.
Lemma: מלאו ימי.
English: “My days are fulfilled” means the time my mother told me to remain with you; and, further, I am eighty-four years old, so when shall I establish the twelve tribes? That is why he said, “that I may go in to her”: he meant to have children.
Derash / classical peirush — not a formal named middah of the 13.
“My days are fulfilled” means the time my mother told me to remain with you; and, further, I am eighty-four years old, so when shall I establish the twelve tribes? That is why he said, “that I may go in to her”: he meant to have children.