מי יורש קנייני אלוה י׳Who is the Heir of Divine Things 10
א׳
1[49] And Moses holds them to be by their nature worthy of the rights of the senior, even though they be younger in point of years, for he gives them the double portion, and takes from the others their half-share. “For if a man,” he says, “has two wives, one beloved and one hated, and both bear him children, when he purposes to divide his possessions, he shall not be able to adjudge the elder’s rights to the son of the beloved (that is, of Pleasure) for he is but ‘young,’ even if years have made him grey-headed, but to the son of Prudence, the hated wife, the son who from earliest childhood is an ‘elder,’ he must give these rights and thus assign to him a double portion” (Deut. 21:15–17).
ב׳
2[50] Now we have given the allegorical interpretation of this more closely elsewhere and therefore let us turn to the next part of our theme. One thing however we must first point out, namely that we are told that God by opening the womb of the hated wife brought to its rising the birth of worthy practices and excellent deeds, while she, who was thought to be beloved, immediately became barren.
ג׳
3[51] For “the Lord” it runs “seeing that Leah is hated opened her womb, but Rachel was barren” (Gen. 29:31). Is it not just then, when the soul is pregnant and begins to bear what befits a soul, that all objects of sense become barren and incapable of childbearing, those objects which find acceptance with us “from the kiss” and not through genuine friendship.
