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פלג. פי' הרב יוסף קרא ז"ל שקרא שמו פלג לפי שבימיו נפלגו ימי חיי בני אדם שהתחילו ימי בני אדם לקצר. כי מיום שנולד פלג לא בא אדם לכלל שלש מאות שנה: פלג. “Peleg.” Rabbi Joseph Kara explains the reason why this son of Ever was called peleg, “division, segment,” was because in his time when the Tower was built and destroyed, the language of mankind, which as the Torah had reported (Genesis 11,1) was uniform and the basis of their unity, was interfered with by G–d, so that eventually there were 70 nations each with a language all their own. At the same time generation after generation man’s lifespan also became drastically shortened. At the time when Peleg was born it had shrunk to about 300 years.