Chayei Sarah

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Chayei Sarah

The family descended from Terach,

Only married outsiders b’pherach, *

If they had the same mother,

They’d not marry each other,

But most anything else was a shidduch.

Avraham and his niece said “I do”,

So son Yitzchok is thus his nephew,

Rivka’s brother Lavan,

Whom we’ll meet later on,

Is his first cousin one time removed.

Sarah, the sister of Milcah,

(The alter-bubby of Rivka),

Was the niece of Nahor,

And Rivka’s mother-in-law,

To keep these things straight is a twister.

Though it may have been “al pi halachah”,

And it had the Creator’s hashgacha,

If my daughter wed one,

Of my granddaddy’s sons,

I would wonder about my mishpacha.

* with burdensome difficulty