Vayeitzei 30-18 · EXTRA 1

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The Complete Passuk

וַתֹּ֣אמֶר לֵאָ֗ה נָתַ֤ן אֱלֹהִים֙ שְׂכָרִ֔י אֲשֶׁר־נָתַ֥תִּי שִׁפְחָתִ֖י לְאִישִׁ֑י …

And Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my maidservant to my husband…”

Source: Rashi on Bereishis 30:18.

Lemma: נתן אלהים שכרי.

Core Text

יִשָּׂשכָר — שָׂכַר שְׂכַרְתִּי, שְׂכַר מַה שֶׁנָּתַתִּי שִׁפְחָתִי לְאִישִׁי.

English: Rashi connects Issachar’s name with the reward Leah understood herself to have received for giving her maidservant to Yaakov.

On the daf / in context: Classical comment tightly bound to this passuk.

Derash / classical peirush — not a formal named middah of the 13.

The hire for my having given my maidservant, or the hire for having surrendered the dudaim.