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God said: “You have repaid My servant Jacob — I, too, will give you and your children reward in this world” (Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, [ed. Higger], chap. 35).
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It therefore was said of her: This girl is with justice [din] and judgment (Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer [ed. Higger], chap. 35).
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The Rabbis learned from this that seven days of feasting are to be conducted for a bride and groom (Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer [ed. Higger], chap. 16).
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Yet another tradition goes so far as to claim that all the dead came up together with Samuel; when they saw Samuel materialize, they thought that the Resurrection of the Dead had come (Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, [ed. Higger], chap. 32).
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According to one tradition, the necromancer was the wife of Zephaniah and the mother of Abner (Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer [ed. Higger], chap. 32).
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When Eve saw the image of Cain, who is not of the earthly beings but from the supernal, she said “I have gained a male child with the Lord [i.e. the serpent of the Lord]” (Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer [ed. Higger], chap. 21).
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The two married daughters and their husbands, along with the two future bridegrooms, remained in Sodom and perished, leaving Lot with only two daughters after the destruction of the city (Gen. Rabbah 50: 9; Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, ed. Higger chap. 25).
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According to Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer (ed. Higger, chap. 22), Abishag was the sister of the Wise Woman from Shunem.
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In addition to representing polite and proper general social conduct, it also embodies instructions and recommendations for fitting sexual behavior (see the introduction by Michael Higger, Higger 1970: 2 – 3).
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Consequently, she was called “Asenath daughter of Poti-phera,” for she was raised in the home of Potiphar and his wife, as if she were their own daughter (Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer [ed. Higger], chap. 37; Midrash Aggadah [ed. Buber], Gen. 41: 45).
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