Oddbean

This is all idiotic. I can't believe Jews would misinterpret their own scriptures like this! Isaac was 37 when his mother died, and he got married at age 40 to Rebecca, which was 3 years later. Genesis 22:23 does not say that Rebecca was only 3 years old! Read the beautiful story in Genesis chapter 24 which describes how Abraham's servant went to Mesopotamia to find Rebecca and see if she would leave her family to marry Isaac. The servant met her as she had gone to get water from a well. You don't send a 3 year-old by herself to do that. She then drew water for all of Abraham's servants' 10 camels; a 3 year-old can't do that. She was then asked by her parents if she would consent to go and be Isaac's wife. She is called a "woman" and a young maiden throughout the story. To maintain that she was only 3 years old at the time is just foolishness. It sounds as if someone is trying to justify pedophilia... Your point number 3 > The incident on Mount Moria (Genesis 22) and the birth of Rebecca happened at the same time, when Isaac was 36 (or 37) years old, same time when Sarah died. is incorrect. Genesis 22:20–23 states: > 20 Now after these things it was told to Abraham, “Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor: 21 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.” 23 (Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. The "after these things" refers to after Abraham's test with regard to sacrificing Isaac. After this incident Abraham learned that his brother Nahor had children, one of whom was Bethuel. Bethuel had then fathered Rebekah. At least 20 and maybe closer to 40 years (i.e., two natural generations) had happened by then, meaning Rebekah was likely closer in age to Isaac, who was 40, which would make sense. Also, remember that they didn't live in an era of instant communication like we do. They lived in separate countries now and didn't see each other again for years, if ever, and apparently letter writing wasn't a big thing.

From their own mouth nostr:nevent1qqszury2axcdg4xvtuvxf8c9c309efpdzqvlzd4qx3wp0hsrs4jdt9gpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnj7q3qx3j34yuj6d9ln5ryuw0ncy97aa6ttc5wwyxqwvjrz7mg039t6l5qxpqqqqqqz2q792q

I listened to that that, I'm just saying it's idiotic and incorrect. Even he acknowledges Rebekah drew water for 10 camels but then comes up with the stupid explanation that 3 year-olds were somehow stronger then, more comparable to 20 year-olds today 🙄

There's lots of videos like this it's not a misunderstanding of their own scripture. https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/8220/showrashi/true https://image.nostr.build/2d12e7c9d03946cf4dc626ca3c27607d1fa7e6540d098ad16c31b73334682b2f.jpg This makes Isaac thirty-seven years old, and at that time, Rebecca was born. He waited for her until she would be fit for marital relations-three years-and then married her.

You said the beautiful history about the servant going to find a wife to Issac, I see nothing beautiful on that see how they treat everyone as wicked but only Abraham family as righteous, also maiden means a young virgin a servant more like a slave. https://video.nostr.build/a7911c2c95f81dbfda4b3014d20167400fd4a57481c8ef6afeb246cd306f077c.mp4

What kind of sense does it make to marry a 3 year-old? Not even the Muslims, whose prophet married a 9 year-old, are that ridiculous! To me this is a case of a stupid misinterpretation of the Scriptures.

Yes same picture both based on the same scripture https://image.nostr.build/232818be935fd20417be7a2cca786e0c119bfb966ae91671c3930f9eddd045ad.jpg https://video.nostr.build/61fe4bb69da33c486cf3b37be12fd214ee92216c715805ac0687105101237fd0.mp4 https://video.nostr.build/5ca96788df6e5476f423f3605c976383b5061f9788ff75ca5073a460d2e45054.mp4

From Zohar: "Rebekah was three years old when Isaac took her; and he begat offspring when he was sixty years old, this being a ripe age for producing a child like Jacob." https://cdn.satellite.earth/07affa9b1f8413bdb3ec4aab386dc46e1bbcd9d71226ab2b6738ba97d01e04b3.mp4

I am just dumbfounded that there are actually Jews who interpret the scripture this way. I'm sure not all do. This is just ridiculous. Now I will admit that I have sometimes found it odd that Isaac waited until he was 40 years old to get married. But even today we have movies like "40 Year Old Virgin". I do think that things were different back then because people lived so much longer, with Isaac living to be 185 years old himself, for example. So you could probably take your time to find the right woman! I've also wondered before if his going blind had something to do with his waiting for so long to get married 👀.