Commentaire de citation sur Néhémie 5:13

his arm Like (Isa. 49:22): “and they will bring your sons in [their] arms (בחצן),” aisselle in French, and so (Neh. 5:13): “Also I shook out my arm (חצני).”

Before this appeared,⁸According to Job, 12:22. it was already famous.⁹B. Megillah, 14b. It was praised in the city where it circulated, saying that nothing like this book was seen, incorporating the above mentioned commentaries. Therefore, they shook out the bosom of their garment,¹⁰Nehemiah, 5:13. with the aid of the Lord among the warriors,¹¹Judges, 5:23. in the holy community of Lublin to undertake the divine task,¹²Exodus, 36:2. bringing it to the divine work to reveal the hidden hoards,¹³Deuteronomy, 33:19. and concealed wisdom of this book. Afterwards, it was printed twice in the holy community of Cracow. Nonetheless, it is cannot be found in the whole diaspora of Ashkenaz, except for one from a town and two from a clan.¹⁴Jeremiah 3:14. This made it necessary to bring it to the craft of the press in the city of Basel.

ונער בשן וכרמל And Bashan and Karmel shake off. Comp. נעור shaken (Neh. 5:13)

and close to sudden death Heb. וגוע מנער, dying from the strangulation of sudden death, as (Exod. 14:27): “and the Lord strangled (וינער).” Menachem (p. 123) defines וינער as an expression of beating, as (Isa. 33:15): “who shakes (נוער) his hands from taking hold of bribe”; (Isa. 52:2), “Shake yourself (התנערי) from the dust, arise”; (Isa. 1:31), “And the[ir] strength will become as tow (לנערת)”; (Job 38: 13), “so that the wicked will be shaken (וינערו) from it”; (Neh. 5:13), “even thus may he be shaken out (נעור) and emptied.”

in their armpits Ajjsela [aisela] in O.F., [aisselle in modern French]. Comp. Ezra (Neh. 5:13): “Also I shook out my armpit (חָצְנִי).”