שאלות: למה בקשה שרה שיגרש את ישמעאל, וביחוד מה חטאה האמה ואיך הסכים השם לזה יען כי ביצחק יקרא לך זרע ולמה יגרשו בעבור זה, מ"ש ותשב מנגד ב"פ. מ"ש באשר הוא שם א"ל באור: Questions: Why did Sarah request that he should drive out Yishmael; and, in particular, what was the sin of the maidservant? And why did God agree to this, on account of, "for it is through Yitzchak that your seed will be called" (Genesis 21:12); and why should he drive him out because of this? That which is written, "and she sat across from him" (Genesis 21:16) twice. That which is written (Genesis 21:17), "there where he is," has no explanation.
ותרא. ואז בעת המשתה ראתה שרה שישמעאל מצחק ומתלוצץ על המשתה הזה, ולא פירש מה היה הצחוק רק ברמז מ"ש אשר ילדה לאברהם, שאמר כמו לצני הדור שמאבימלך נתעברה שרה, ורק הוא נולד מאברהם, ושרה הכירה שלצחוק זה הסיתו אמו, שהורע בעיניה מה שמבכר בן שרה על בנה, וע"ז קראו בן הגר המצרית ולא קראו בשם ישמעאל, כי ראתה שאמו הסיתה אותו לזה: And she saw: And then at the time of the banquet, Sarah saw that Yishmael was laughing and scorning about this banquet. But it did not explain what [the cause of] the laughter was, but only hinted [by] that which was written, "that she had born to Avraham" - that he said, like the mockers of the generation, that Sarah got pregnant from Avimelekh and that only he was born from Avraham. And Sarah recognized that his mother had incited him to this laughter, since that which the son of Sarah was preferred to her son was bad in her eyes. And based on that, it called him, "the son of Hagar the Egyptian," and did not call him by the name, Yishmael. It was because she saw that his mother had incited him to [do] this.