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What is the significance of the fact that Hagar took for Yishmael a wife from Egypt?
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Rashi: Everything returns to its source - as Hagar grew up in Egypt. 1
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Targum Yonasan explains that she first took him a wife called Adisa (who some say was from Mo'av), and when he divorced her, she found him an Egyptian wife called Fatima.
QUESTIONS ON RASHI
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Rashi writes: "'From Egypt' - from her homeland...." Why does Rashi add this?
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Gur Aryeh: Why was it important for the Torah to tell us the nationality of Yishmael's wife? It is to teach us that everything follows the nature of its root or foundation.
