| | Rachel - meaning of word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | :''For alternate uses see Rachel (disambiguation)'' In the Book of Genesis, Rachel (רָחֵל "Ewe", Standard Hebrew Raḥel, Tiberian Hebrew Rāḫēl, Rāḥēl) is the second and favourite wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph (dreamer) and Benjamin. |
 | | In Book of Jeremiah 31:15 the prophet speaks of 'Rachel weeping for her children' (KJV): *This is interpreted in Judaism as Rachel crying for her descendants' sufferings and exiles following the destruction of the First Temple in ancient Jerusalem. |
 | | *Judaism does not record any "slaughter" of "Hebrew babies" at that time, as Judaism's Torah teaches in the book of Exodus that it was the Egyptian Pharaoh who issued a decree that Hebrew male infants be drowned during the time of the birth of Moses, the true redeemer of the Jews. |
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