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Commentary for Ezekiel 16:44

הִנֵּה֙ כָּל־הַמֹּשֵׁ֔ל עָלַ֥יִךְ יִמְשֹׁ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר כְּאִמָּ֖ה בִּתָּֽהּ׃

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying: As the mother, so her daughter.

Rashi on Ezekiel

whoever uses proverbs Heb. הַמֹשֵּׁל. This is an expression of a proverb and a riddle
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Rashi on Ezekiel

“Like mother, like daughter” Heb. כְּאִמָה בִּתָּה. The ‘hey’ of כְּאִמָה is not a ‘mappiq [aspirate] hey,’ [to read her mother; i.e. it is not the third person possessive] because it does not serve for any noun but it means, as the mother, so is her daughter.
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