We have an incident in which Avimelech gets into a squabble with
Yitzchok. After this, Avimelech and Fichol
come together to make Shaloim with Yitzchok. It says they made it a Bris
between them in 26:33, (וַיִּקְרָא אֹתָהּ, שִׁבְעָה; עַל-כֵּן
שֵׁם-הָעִיר בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, עַד הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה) Meaning, He named it
Shiva, therefore the city is called Be’er Sheva until this very day. Pashut
Pshat in the Posuk is that it was named after the 7th Be’er. Rashi says, (שבעה: על שם הברית) At any rate it is
difficult. It already says earlier in 26:23
that (וַיַּעַל מִשָּׁם, בְּאֵר
שָׁבַע) That Yitzchok went to
Be’er Sheva. In Parshas Vayeira 21:31 we already have that Avraham named it
Be’er Sheva (עַל-כֵּן, קָרָא לַמָּקוֹם הַהוּא--בְּאֵר שָׁבַע: כִּי שָׁם נִשְׁבְּעוּ, שְׁנֵיהֶם). Al Pi Pshat it is
very difficult to understand. The Meshech Chochmah and Netziv both say, that
the city was called Be’er Sheva. However, subsequently, the Bris was broken
when Avimelech’s people made trouble for Yitzchok. Yitzchok came and made a new
Bris between them and was again Mefarseim the name בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, עַד הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה.
This idea that a
person can give a name to a city that already has a name brings to mind a Noide
B’yehuda which Rebbi learned in Yeshiva now in Maseches Gittin. The Teshuva is
in Even Ha’ezer and it is about a city in Poland named Piltz. They were writing a Get and
the city was always spelled Pei, Yud, Lamed, Tes, Ende Tzaddik. A new
Rav came to town and said this is an incorrect spelling because in Lashon
Koidesh you can never have 3 Sh’va sounds one after the other. He spelled it
without the Tes on 2 Gittin. Earlier there had already been Gittin with the
Tes. People wrote the Noide B’yehuda asking if the new Rav was correct or not.
This was one case where knowing too much Dikduk caused problems because the
Noide B’yehuda wrote back that the original spelling was correct. It should
have the Tes and the rules of Dikduk don’t apply to other languages. However,
due to Kavod Harav the Noide B’yehuda asked that for the next 30 days they
should be Machriz in every Shul in town and say that the city’s name is spelled
without the Tes. Just like we can change a person’s name so to you can change
the name of a city and with this Hachraza, he made that there wouldn’t be any
Lav made on the Gittin. Of course the Chidush is that you can change the name
of a city which we learn here from Yitzchok, that he called the city Be’er
Sheva which happened to be the same name, however, with a different Tam. What
we learn B’derech Mussar is the tremendous Kavod Hatalmid Chochom that the
Noideh B’yehuda had.
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