Rashi on Yisro 18:18

Parashas Yisro · EXTRA (side-ring) · Passuk 18:18

Torah Temimah has no citation on this passuk/range. Side-ring material from Rashi.

Sefaria — Rashi on Yisro 18:18

Core Text — Rashi on Yisro 18:18
נבל תבל. כְּתַרְגּוּמוֹ, וּלְשׁוֹנוֹ לְשׁוֹן כְּמִישָׁה, פלייש"טרא בְּלַעַז, כְּמוֹ "וְהֶעָלֶה נָבֵל" (ירמיהו ח'), "כִּנְבֹל עָלֶה מִגֶּפֶן" (ישעיהו ל"ד), שֶׁהוּא כָמוּשׁ עַל יְדֵי חַמָּה וְעַל יְדֵי קֶרַח וְכֹחוֹ תָּשׁ וְנִלְאֶה: גם אתה. לְרַבּוֹת אַהֲרֹן וְחוּר וְשִׁבְעִים זְקֵנִים: כי כבד ממך. כָּבְדּוֹ רַב יוֹתֵר מִכֹּחֲךָ:

English: נבל תבל — Explain this as the Targum does: thou will certainly become weary. Its meaning expresses the idea of withering, old French flestre, just as. (Jeremiah 8:13) “and the leaf is withered (נבל)”; (Isaiah 34:4) “as withereth (כנבל) the leaf from off the vine” — the meaning being that it becomes shrivelled through the heat and through the frost, and so its strength diminishes and it becomes, as it were, weary, and falls from off the vine (מגפן)‎. גם אתה THOU ALSO — The word גם “also” was added in order to include Aharon and Hur and the seventy elders (cf. Mekhilta). כי כבד ממך FOR [THIS THING] IS TOO HEAVY FOR THEE — its weight is far more than thy strength can bear.

Type of Learning

Commentary (Rishon) on a TT-silent passuk — EXTRA side-ring only.

What Is Learned

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