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Sforno on Genesis 30:3/ספורנו על בראשית ל׳:ג׳

אבּוֹא אֵלֶיהָ. וּבָזֶה אָמַרְתִּי הָבָה לִי, לֹא שֶׁחָשַׁבְתִּי שֶׁיִּהְיֶה בְּיָדְךָ רְפוּאָה שֶׁל עֲקָרָה.
1בוא אליה, this was Rachel’s answer to her husband’s accusation. She had not meant that it was within Yaakov’s power to make her pregnant, but she wanted to nurse a child by the next best method, that of becoming foster mother to her handmaid’s child.
בוְאִבָּנֶה גַּם אָנֹכִי. כְּמוֹ אֲחוֹתִי.
2ואבנה גם אנכי ממנה, so that I will have a share in posterity just as has my sister through her children.
גמִמֶּנָּה. שֶׁבְּקִנְאַת חֲבֶרְתִּי יִתְעוֹרֵר טֶבַע כְּלֵי הַזֶּרַע לִפְעוּלוֹתָם (מגילה יג.).
3ממנה, a recipe found in Megillah 13 for barren women to be jealous of other women who have no problem conceiving in order for their own organs to respond in a manner that helps them conceive.