Commentaire sur La Genèse 41:8
וַיְהִ֤י בַבֹּ֙קֶר֙ וַתִּפָּ֣עֶם רוּח֔וֹ וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח וַיִּקְרָ֛א אֶת־כָּל־חַרְטֻמֵּ֥י מִצְרַ֖יִם וְאֶת־כָּל־חֲכָמֶ֑יהָ וַיְסַפֵּ֨ר פַּרְעֹ֤ה לָהֶם֙ אֶת־חֲלֹמ֔וֹ וְאֵין־פּוֹתֵ֥ר אוֹתָ֖ם לְפַרְעֹֽה׃
Mais, le matin venu, son esprit en fut troublé et il manda tous les magiciens de l’Égypte et tous ses savants. Pharaon leur exposa son rêve, mais nul ne put lui en expliquer le sens.
Rashi on Genesis
ותפעם רוחו HIS SPIRIT WAS TROUBLED — The Targum renders it by “his spirit was agitated” (beaten upon) — it rang within like a bell (פעמון). With regard to Nebuchadnezzar it states (Daniel 2:1) ותתפעם רוחו (the verb in the Hithpael, thus having a double ת), because in that case there were two reasons for perturbation — his forgetting the dream and his ignorance of its interpretation (Genesis Rabbah 89:5).
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Rashbam on Genesis
ותפעם רוחו; his mind was thoroughly disturbed so that he felt the urgent need to explore the meaning of this dream. We find that King Nevuchadnezzar’s mind was similarly disturbed by a dream when he called in Daniel in Daniel 2,3.after his own experts had failed him. [Of course, on that occasion the king was not even able to recall what he had dreamt and he set his interpreters an impossible task, not like here. Ed.]
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Sforno on Genesis
ואין פותר אותם, because they all proceeded from the premise that there had been two dreams. They did not realise that in the first part of the dream the focus was on the active causes of producing food, i.e. ploughing by the cows and threshing of the grain before it could release its kernels, whereas in the second half of the dream the focus was on appearance of the product which is converted into food, the stalks of growing corn, as well as its function, i.e. when the ears are empty there is no food.
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