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Episode 34: Victim Blaming
“Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.”
וַתֵּצֵא דִינָה בַת־לֵאָה אֲשֶׁר יָלְדָה לְיַעֲקֹב לִרְאוֹת בִּבְנוֹת הָאָרֶץ׃
(Bereishit 34:1)
Why does the Torah emphasize Dinah as Leah’s daughter before mentioning Yaacov? Why note that she “went out”? And why specify that it was “to see the daughters of the land”?
Rashi explains that Dinah is called Leah’s daughter because she inherited Leah’s tendency to “go out”—just as Leah went out to meet Yaacov in the field (Bereishit 30:16), so too Dinah went out, implying a lack of modesty.
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