**At that time** Yehudah went to the house of Shem and took Tamar daughter of Eilam son of Shem for Er his firstborn as a wife. [(The Radam writes on what is stated in Bereishit Rabbah, chapter 85, that Ephraim Miksha'a in the name of Rabbi Meir says Tamar was the daughter of Shem. This was a wonderment - is the sotah (suspected adulteress) truly her (Yevamot 12)? And similarly Rashi there says "I was orphaned, when I was small my mother and father and brother married me and I was...

**Tamar** [Queen of Sheba, Rachav in one reincarnation - Rat Tama"r - and the three of them had one thing happen to them. Tamar bore twins, Queen of Sheba bore from Shlomo for two years, Rachav saved two spies (Chass"al Ma'yan HaDa'at, chapter 22). The soul of Tamar was a male soul, and she was the daughter of Shem. The soul of Yehudah was the soul of Shem, and the soul of Yehudah emerged...