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  • An opposite approach is exhibited by another exegesis of “And the Lord fashioned [va-yiven] the rib,” that understands va-yiven as coming from the word binah, wisdom.

    Eve: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

  • Solo perseguiri y expulsara k Ips genios turbulentos y ociosos que ponen su copato en turbar la tranquilidad y sosiego de los que trabajan y yiven ocupados.

    Interesting official documents relating to the United Provinces of Venezuela .. Venezuela 1812

  • The Rabbis derived the word va-yiven in “And the Lord fashioned [va-yiven] the rib” (Gen. 2: 22) from the word hitbonenut: God hitbonen (looked and thought) from which part of the man’s body the woman should be created.

    Eve: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

  • The Rabbis understood the word va-yiven in “And the Lord fashioned [va-yiven] the rib” to mean that God plaited Eve’s hair in a braid around her head, bedecked her as a bride, and thus brought her to Adam; in some places the plaiting of hair is called “binyan.”

    Eve: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

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