Commentaire sur Les Lamentations 2:20
רְאֵ֤ה יְהוָה֙ וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָה לְמִ֖י עוֹלַ֣לְתָּ כֹּ֑ה אִם־תֹּאכַ֨לְנָה נָשִׁ֤ים פִּרְיָם֙ עֹלֲלֵ֣י טִפֻּחִ֔ים אִם־יֵהָרֵ֛ג בְּמִקְדַּ֥שׁ אֲדֹנָ֖י כֹּהֵ֥ן וְנָבִֽיא׃ (ס)
Vois, ô Éternel, et regarde qui tu as traité de la sorte! Se peut-il que des femmes dévorent le fruit de leurs entrailles, leurs jeunes enfants, objet de leurs tendres soins? Que dans le sanctuaire du Seigneur soient massacrés prêtres et prophètes?
Rashi on Lamentations
Infants who were lovingly attended. Tender children, who are still being raised with their mothers’ pampering. And our Rabbis expounded [that this phrase is] referring to Do’eg the son of Yoseif,46See Eichah Rabbah 1:51 which indicates that the infant was the son of Do’eg who had died, leaving a small child. However, according to an edification in the Talmudic text in Maseches Yoma 38b, Do’eg was the child’s name, and Rashi apparently had this version. whose mother would measure him with [her] handbreadth every day,47The word טפחים [tipuchim] meaning care, can also be vowelized as tephuchim, meaning ‘handbreadths.’ to give gold to the Beis Hamikdosh according to how much he grew;48I.e., the weight he gained. and in the end she devoured him.49Maseches Yoma 38b. When in the Sanctuary of God, was murdered
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Rashi on Lamentations
a kohein and a prophet. The Holy Spirit answers them, “Was it proper for you to have murdered Zecharyah the son of Yehoyada,” as it is written in Divrei Hayomim,50II Divrei Hayomim 24:20-21. that he reproved them when they came to prostrate themselves to Yo’ash, and they deified him. “And the Spirit [of God] enveloped Zecharyah the son of Yehoyada,”51Ibid., 24:20. who was a kohein and a prophet, and they killed him in the courtyard.52Because he rebuked them for worshiping idols and he had prophesied the destruction of Yerusholayim.
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