"Zilpa the maidservant of Leah gave birth to a second son to Jacob" (30:12). “Leah said: In my happiness, as women will be happy for me; she called his name Asher” (Genesis 30:13). “Leah said: In my happiness [beoshri], as women will be happy for me” – saying: ‘Happy is the one who merited this.’ Rabbi Levi said: Asher never stayed the night in an inn.44Asher’s portion in the Land of Israel was able to provide his tribe with all their needs; they did not need to travel to earn a livelihood.
He inherited peaks with castles, what Judah did not inherit in his lands. That is what is written: “The sons of Asher: Yimna, Yishva, Yishvi, Beria, and Serah their sister…he was the father of Birzayit” (I Chronicles 7:30–31). Rabbi Levi and Rabbi Simon, Rabbi Levi said: It is because their daughters were beautiful and were married to priests who were anointed with the anointing oil, olive [zayit] oil. Rabbi Simon said: They were married to kings who were anointed with olive [zayit] oil.