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Re: tne names of the wives of the 12 sons of Jacob
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I'll try!According to what I've learned, Asenath means "bush", because the little girl was found abandonned under a bush. According to Jewish tradition she was the daughter of Dinah and adopted by an Egyptian.http://www.emanuelnyc.org/bulletin/archive/60.htmlAs for Dinah, her name is traditionally made of the same letters as nida ("impure") for she was the reincarnation of Amtalai, the mother of Abraham, who voluntarily conceived him without respecting the laws of family purity (http://judaism.about.com/od/sexinjudaism/a/familypuritylaw.htm) - what happened to Dinah was the punition for it.Alit: http://www.hebrewletters.com/item.cfm?itemid=15288 or http://www.hebrewletters.com/item.cfm?itemid=6896Adinah: http://www.hebrewletters.com/item.cfm?itemid=1880Uzit: http://www.hebrewletters.com/item.cfm?itemid=1922Hadorah: I've only found this http://www.hebrewletters.com/results.cfm?keywords=hadora&cfstart=1Adon: http://www.hebrewletters.com/item.cfm?itemid=5756Ardiah: http://www.hebrewletters.com/item.cfm?itemid=2469Mahlia: http://www.hebrewletters.com/item.cfm?itemid=2014Arbat: http://www.hebrewletters.com/item.cfm?itemid=6826
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