Abraham's Daughter

Bava Batra 16b

It is like a dispute among the Tannaim: "And the LORD blessed Abraham with everything" (Genesis 24:1). What is "with everything"? Rabbi Meir says: That he had no daughter. Rabbi Yehudah says: That he had a daughter. Others say: Abraham had a daughter, and "with everything" was her name. Rabbi Eleazar of Modi'in says: Abraham our father had astrology in his heart, so that all the kings of the east and the west would rise early to come to his door. Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai says: A precious stone hung on the neck of Abraham our father, so that any sick person who looked at it was immediately healed; and when Abraham our father departed from the world, the Holy One, blessed be He, hung it on the orb of the sun.

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