Commentaire de citation sur Isaïe 1:6

"And bandages" - [this word is] like that [which it says]: "...they were not sprinkled [with medicinal herbs] and they were not bandaged/wrapped up..." (Isaiah 1:6). And Rabbi Yitzchak the Spaniard says that [this phrase is referring] to [how God "bandages" and fashions] their design, like the expression used by Yishmael and others like him: "Your hands designed me..." (Iyov 10:8). And in my opinion, [the meaning is] that He is like one who touches them, that he touches that which is very saddening for them.

Shall strange cold... water be abandoned? Or shall flowing spring water, which was strange to all people until now, and it is cold, be abandoned? זָרִים means flowing, and this proves it (2 Kings 19:24): “I dug and drank strange water (זָרִים).” Menahem, however, classified with (Isaiah 1:6) “they have not been sprinkled (זֹרוּ), neither have they been bandaged,” an expression of curative water, and he gave a reason for his statement, and he said that if he wished to speak with an expression of זֶרֶם, a stream, he would double the ‘mem,’ and he would add ‘yud’ ‘mem,’ and he would say זְרוּמִים because of the plural number of מַיִם water, and because they are streams (זְרָמִים).

not to be (1) removed or (2) separated from themselves -- There are two ways a man can lose his benefits. Either (1) they can be removed from him and cease to exist such as in the death of his children or the burning down of his possessions. Or, (2) they can be separated from him and transferred to someone else.. In truth, they are different calamities. The first case is difficult in that there is no hope left for reattaining this thing which no longer exists unlike something which still exists but is in someone else's possession where one still sits and hopes perhaps it will someday return to him. On the other hand, the second case also has a harsher evil since (Shir 8:6) "Jealousy [is] cruel as the grave", that a man sees his hard earned work in someone else's hands, as written (Yeshaya 1:6) "your land, strangers devour it in your presence".

He squeezed. The word connotes pressure. Similarly, "They were neither pressed nor bandaged."²³Yeshaya, 1:6. They were not strapped in bandages to draw out the discharge.