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Ramban on Genesis 38:12/רמב"ן על בראשית ל״ח:י״ב
אוַיַּעַל עַל גֹּזְזֵי צֹאנוֹ הָיָה עוֹלֶה שָׁם תָּמִיד לְהִתְנַחֵם, שֶׁיָּשִׂים לִבּוֹ בַּצֹּאן וְיִשְׁכַּח רִישׁוֹ, וְהֻגַּד לְתָמָר כִּי הוּא עוֹלֶה שָׁם בְּכָל יוֹם תָּמִיד, וְאָרְבָה לוֹ בְּאַחַד הַיָּמִים. אוֹ שֶׁהָיָה יְהוּדָה גָּדוֹל בָּאָרֶץ וְהָיוּ מִתְקַבְּצִים לוֹ שָׁם לַעֲשׂוֹת מִשְׁתֶּה בְּעֵת הַגִּזָּה כְּמִשְׁתֶּה הַמֶּלֶךְ, וְהָיוּ הָעֲנִיִּים הוֹלְכִים שָׁם, וְהֻגַּד לָהּ טֶרֶם עֲלוֹתוֹ:
1AND JUDAH, WENT UP UNTO HIS SHEEP-SHEARERS. He would go there continually to console himself after his wife’s death so that he may turn his attention to the sheep and forget his poverty.170 Now when it was told to Tamar that he goes up there daily without fail, she waited for him on one of those days. It may be that since Judah was prominent in the land, people would assemble there to make a feast at the time of the shearing, similar to a royal feast, and the poor would go there, and it was told to her before he went up there.