Two Proud Ones and the Field of Grain and Chaff

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 110:20

"Two nations (goyim) are in your womb" two proud ones (ge'im) are in your womb: Hadrian among the nations and Solomon among Israel. "Two nations are in your womb" He said to her: you are like a field whose seed succeeded and whose storehouses filled with grain while the stalls filled with chaff. Blessed be the field that filled its storehouses with grain and its stalls with chaff. The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Rebecca: let there be peace in this belly, for it is destined to fill the Garden of Eden with the righteous and Gehinnom with the wicked. "Two nations" two who are hated by nations: all the nations hate Israel and all the nations hate Esau. "And two peoples shall be separated from your bowels" from here that he was born circumcised. "And one people shall be stronger than the other people" until here one reads Savteka and Raamah; from here onward let the Jew and the Aramean arise. "And the elder shall serve the younger" if the younger merits, the elder will serve; and if not, he will not serve.

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