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Dear Shai,
We talk of the Scriptures and you bring us questionable traditions reflecting the Sages' imaginations, though they treat their own words as though they had been handed down from Sinai. (We have found no source for your words -- please send us the reference.)
Please note, Shai, that even Chazal -- whose words you in your innocence believe, as though they had come from Sinai -- supposed that in the Scriptures families were attributed to the fathers. Thus, too, did R' Yaakov think, as we related in our answer: "'Who were registered by the clans of their paternal houses' (Numbers 1:18) -- a paternal house is called a family, a maternal house is not called a family."
Sincerely,
Daat Emet
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