EXTRA · Side-ring · Parashas Vayeitzei · Passuk 30:23
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And she conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
Source: Rashi on Bereishis 30:23, citing Bereshit Rabbah 73:5.
Lemma: אסף אלהים את חרפתי.
English: Rashi explains “אסף” as hiding or putting away the disgrace of barrenness; he also records the aggadic teaching that a child gives a mother someone in whom to locate household mishaps.
Derash / classical peirush — not a formal named middah of the 13.
The reproach of barrenness, for they used to say of her that she was fit to be married to Eisav.