1)

What are the connotations of "va'Teled lo es Zimron"?

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Seforno: It means that Avraham raised them in his home ? not that they were considered his children. 1


1

Refer to 25:4:151:1).

2)

Why does the Torah not stress the miracle that Avraham fathered more children in his old age?

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Ha'amek Davar: Once his ability to have children was opened, it became his nature, 1 just like the rock in the Midbar. Once it gave water, this became its nature.


1

This was at least 40 years after Yitzchak was born. Yitzchak was born only 14 years after Yishmael. Why does the Torah stress (18:11) that Avraham would father Yitzchak in his old age? Yishmael was an aberration; he was born before HaSh-m changed Avram's name to Avraham. Astrology taught that Avram cannot father! (Heard from R. Moshe Shapiro)

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