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Vayigash | Yaakov's Daughters
Vayigash | Yaakov's Daughters, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom
How many daughters did Yaakov have? (it's not so simple...)
As we all know, Yaakov had 12 sons and one daughter; he had over 45 grandsons and - one granddaughter. This is the information given to us throughout the second half of Bereishit, culminating in the list of emigres to Egypt in Bereishit 46. The statistical improbability of this gender gap is difficult; in addition, the text makes several references to the "daughters" of Yaakov. We survey the opinions of several of the Rishonim in grappling with this problem and then discover a…
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