Aliya Summary: The descendants of Yishmael are now enumerated.
Yishmael is identified fully as the son of Avraham and Hagar the
Egyptian maiden of Sara who bore Yishmael to Avraham. This is quite
parallel to the description of Yitzchak's connection to Avraham as
stated in the beginning of next week's Parsha. This might further
indicate Yishmael's Teshuva in his later years.
It is
noteworthy that Yishmael fathered twelve sons, not like Yitzchak, but
like Yaakov. Yishmael dies at the age of 100 and 30 and 7 years. The
wording in the Torah purposely parallels that which was used to describe
Sara's lifespan, a further indication (perhaps) of the change for the
better in Yishmael. Rashi says that the age of Yishmael is included to
help us compute the chronology of Yaakov.
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