*1 Obviously HURRY=TO QUICKEN

*2 A SKILLED person excels at doing things QUICKLY without
hesitation

*3 One type of FOOLISHNESS is doing things QUICKLY without
thinking

*4 The DOWRY removes hesitation and QUICKENS the marriage.
Note that Ex22-16a uses the OTHER VERSE technique since
Dt22-29 specifies that rapists must pay 50 Shekel to their
victims (i.e. The DOWRY of virgins is 50). See List210z
for the OTHER VERSE technique. See *10 *11 for further
details.

*10 Rav Hirsch suggests that M-H-R comes from M-Ch-R (Price)
with the interchange of Chet and Hey. Thus Rav Hirsch
would see 3 of the 4 meanings of M-H-R as meaning QUICKLY
while DOWRY would be a separate meaning with a separate
derivation.

*11 Rashi specifically calls the M-H-R the MARRIAGE CONTRACT
The Ketuvah is a contract in which the husband promises
to pay his wife a certain sum in case of divorce.

According to some opinions the Ketuvah is Biblical in
force. According to other opinions the Ketuvah is
Rabbinic in force (an enactment to discourage divorce)

Rashi need not be taking sides here (though he may
be of the opinion that the Ketuvah is Biblical, as
he says). Rather Rashi is commenting on the double
phrase in Gn34-12 PRESENTS AND DOWRY. So Rashi
argues that DOWRY must be the LEGAL MARRAIGE COTNRACT
and therefore distinct from PRESENTS.

But from a purely literary point of view, the M-H-R
might be the established custom of DOWRY and still
be distinct from the marriage contract.

*1 Rashi states the following: "If MOTHERS make mistakes it
is because they raise children; if SINGLE women make
mistakes it is because they try to pick people up"
Rashi should be perceived as giving ILLUSTRATIONS of
why being without children is disgraceful for women

*2 Jacob did not NEED permission to leave with HIS wife
But his father-in-law would perceive it as STEALING
his daughter.

*3 Gn27-41 states that Esauv hated Jacob for stealing the
blessing. Gn27-44 states that after a few years this
hatred would subside. Hence Gn33-09 with its statement
I DONT NEED YOUR MONEY confirms these other 2 verses.

*1 As is customary in Hebrew, when a letter is deleted
we insert a DAGESH which means we liason the
pronunciation with the preceding and succeeding syllables

Thus the word is pronounced Cha-NaN-Ni--(Not
Cha-Na-Ni). Hence the pronunciation reflects the
double letter even though the spelling does not

*2 If the TERMINAL letter of the root is NUN while
the INITIAL letter of the suffix is NUN then we use
one NUN with a dagesh vs two NUN.

*3 Here the root has a REPEATED LETTER; one of these
repeated letters is deleted

*4 Here the INITIAL letter of the suffix is TAUV while
the TERMINAL letter of the root is TAUV. Hence the
whole word (Root+Suffix) has one Tauv with a dagesh.

*10 Rashi also makes comments on the small-spelling--big-
meaning difference between VeHaMoTi vs VeHayMatti
See LIST703c below for details

*1 In this example the identically spelled word can mean either
- he walked (past tense)
- walk (Command)

Cf The Grammatical tables in the Ibn Shoshan dictionary
Table 1 presents the conjugations in question.

*2 The words are spelled with the same letters. The minute
vowel difference determines whether it is causative(Helped)
vs active (Good)


*3 The two words have the
- same spelling
- same letters
- differ in placement of accents
Cf Gn29-06a vs Gn29-09,Gn46-26a vs Gn46-27 and
Gn42-21b vs Gn34-27

*4 See Ibn Shoshan Dictionary Tables 6 and 7.
The conjugation of the Biblical root Lamed-Vav-Nun
is LLoon not LLeen which should therefore be interpreted
as a noun (night-stay)

Hence the Rashi on Gn24-23b which uses the word LLeen
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Eliezer used the word LLeen indicating he requested
a one night stay. By contrast Rivkah used the word
LLoon--the verb form--indicating that he could stay
for many nights
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*5 I frequently cite the Ibn Shoshan Dictionary, Volume 5,
the Appendix: This gives a short but comprehensive
set of grammatical tables.

- Table 10, Kal Mode for 1-2-2 verbs: Ve-HaM-Mo-Thi
- Table 6: Hifil Mode for 1-v-3 verbs:Ve-Hay-MaT-Ti

Ve-HaM-Mo-Thi means to DESTROY;
Ve-Hay-MaT-Ti means to kill

Although the meanings are similar the conjugations are
totally different as Rashi is quick to point out.