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1: This is <\/span>toldot<\/em> <\/span>the line of Esau\u2014that is, Edom\u2026. 4, 5:<\/span>Vateled<\/em> <\/span>Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; Basemath <\/span>yaldah<\/em> <\/span>bore Reuel; and Oholibamah <\/span>yaldah<\/em> <\/span>bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. Those were the sons of Esau, who <\/span>yuldu <\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>were born to him in the land of Canaan\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s chapter is taken up with the lineage of Esau – his <\/span>toldot<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/i>Here that word is translated as \u201cthe line of,\u201d whereas in chapter 25 – the beginning of the <\/span>parashah<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>the weekly portion called Toldot, it is translated thus: \u201cThis is <\/span>toldot<\/em> <\/span>the story <\/span>of Isaac, son of Abraham. Abraham <\/span>holid <\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>begot Isaac\u201d (25:19). <\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, the word is from the root <\/span>y-l-d<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> which is gives us words relating to the birthing process. <\/span><\/p>\n

Believe it or not, there are four verb forms alone related to birth: <\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Yaldah\/teled<\/span><\/em>: This is what the mother does (thus these forms are in the feminine): \u201cgives birth.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Holid\/yolid<\/span><\/em>: This is what the father does (thus the masculine). Here the usual English equivalents are formal, or archaic: \u201cbegets, sires.\u201d Nowadays we just say \u201cfather\u201d as a verb.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Nolad\/nolda, yivaled\/tivaled<\/span><\/em>: \u00a0This is what the child does (both masculine and feminine): \u201cis born.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Yiled\/yildah, meyaled\/miyaledet<\/span><\/em>: This is what the helper (midwife – once exclusively feminine, now both) does: \u201cmidwives, or \u00a0births.\u201d The name of the profession is also \u201c<\/span>miyaled\/et<\/span><\/em>.\u201d We will meet two famous ones, Shifrah and Puah in a few weeks at the beginning of Exodus.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (For the Hebrew grammar aficionados – those are the kal (p\u2019al), hif\u2019il, nif\u2019al <\/em>and pi\u2019el<\/em> forms respectively).<\/span><\/p>\n

    That\u2019s just the verbs. This is an incredibly rich root for nouns and adjectives as well:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    • yeled\/yaldah<\/em> <\/span>– boy\/girl (the plural can mean \u201cchildren\u201d).<\/span><\/li>\n
    • yaldut<\/em> <\/span>– childhood<\/span><\/li>\n
    • yalduti<\/em> <\/span>– childish<\/span><\/li>\n
    • leidah<\/em> <\/span>– birth<\/span><\/li>\n
    • mulad<\/em> <\/span>– inborn, genetic<\/span><\/li>\n
    • huledet<\/em> <\/span>– birthday (who is the only person who has a birthday in Tanakh? Hint: he wasn\u2019t an Israelite, and we will find out on Thursday in chapter 40).<\/span><\/li>\n
    • moledet<\/em> <\/span>– homeland<\/span><\/li>\n
    • yeludah<\/em> <\/span>– birthrate<\/span><\/li>\n
    • yelid\/yelidah<\/em> <\/span>-native, indigenous<\/span><\/li>\n
    • molad<\/em> <\/span>– the birth of the new moon<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      The Tanakh, and Hebrew in general, seem to know \u201ca whole lot about birthin\u2019 babies\u201d (apologies to Butterfly McQueen, in <\/span>Gone With the Wind<\/span><\/em>). <\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":103338,"id":103338,"title":"-623c52adece1c--623c52adece1dgen36-milim toldot yeled.jpg","filename":"623c52adece1c-623c52adece1dgen36-milim-toldot-yeled.jpg.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/623c52adece1c-623c52adece1dgen36-milim-toldot-yeled.jpg.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-gen-36\/623c52adece1c-623c52adece1dgen36-milim-toldot-yeled-jpg\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"623c52adece1c-623c52adece1dgen36-milim-toldot-yeled-jpg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":39052,"date":"2022-03-24 11:14:53","modified":"2022-03-24 11:15:13","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":960,"height":720,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/623c52adece1c-623c52adece1dgen36-milim-toldot-yeled.jpg-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/623c52adece1c-623c52adece1dgen36-milim-toldot-yeled.jpg-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/623c52adece1c-623c52adece1dgen36-milim-toldot-yeled.jpg-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/623c52adece1c-623c52adece1dgen36-milim-toldot-yeled.jpg.jpg","large-width":960,"large-height":720,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/623c52adece1c-623c52adece1dgen36-milim-toldot-yeled.jpg.jpg","1536x1536-width":960,"1536x1536-height":720,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/623c52adece1c-623c52adece1dgen36-milim-toldot-yeled.jpg.jpg","2048x2048-width":960,"2048x2048-height":720,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/623c52adece1c-623c52adece1dgen36-milim-toldot-yeled.jpg.jpg","post_full_size-width":960,"post_full_size-height":720,"home_baner":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/623c52adece1c-623c52adece1dgen36-milim-toldot-yeled.jpg-560x420.jpg","home_baner-width":560,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":"

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