In this week’s shmuze, Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker related to two questions about the puzzling words of the midwife to Rachel during the tragic birth of Binyamin, “Do not be fearful for this is also a son”: 1. How was this supposed to console Rachel, on the verge of death? 2. What does the word “also” add in the expression “this is also a son”?
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