Iscah Is Sarah Who Gazed With the Holy Spirit

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 62:15

"And Abram and Nahor took for themselves wives" (Genesis 11:29). Abram was greater than Nahor by a year, and Nahor was greater than Haran by a year. And it is written, "And Abram and Nahor took for themselves wives," and so forth. And Rabbi Yitzchak said: Iscah is Sarah. And why was she called Iscah? Because she gazed [sokhah] with the Holy Spirit. And this is what is written, "All that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice" (Genesis 21:12).

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