In the truncated lineage given in Va'Era, Eleazar, the son of Aaron, is said to marry one of the "daughters of Putiel" (Ex. 6:25). Rashi quotes the rabbinic tradition's explanation of the unusual interest in the lineage of Eleazar's wife: From the seed of Jethro, who fattened (pitem) calves for idolatrous worship, and from the seed of Joseph, who made light (pitpet) of his temptations. (Rashi, based on Sotah 43a and elsewhere) The pshat commentators are less keen on this: bot