창세기 45:26의 주석

וכי הוא משל — the word וכי is used here in the sense of אשר “that”: AND THAT HE WAS RULER.

‘VAYAPHAG’ HIS HEART. His heart passed away and ceased to believe; his heart took no notice of their words. The word vayaphag has the same meaning as the Mishnaic expression: “The fragrance of all spices m’phigin (escape).”⁶³Beitza 14a. Similar is the verse, Without any ‘haphugoth’ (intermission).⁶⁴Lamentations 3:49. The verse, And his scent is not ‘namar,’⁶⁵Jeremiah 48:11. is rendered in the Targum: “and his scent is not pag (passing away).” This is the language of Rashi. But it is not correct, for phugah is an expression of cessation and abolition, just as : give thyself no ‘phugath’ (respite).⁶⁶Lamentations 2:18. So also, Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not, without any ‘haphugoth,’⁶⁴Lamentations 3:49. meaning “mine eye pours out tears steadily without cessation or intermission.” And so likewise, “m’phigin (their fragrance)”⁶³Beitza 14a. means that the spices scatter the fragrance and it is voided. So also, Therefore the law is ‘taphug,’⁶⁷Habakkuk 1:4. that is, voided and ceased. In this verse also, ‘vayaphag’ his heart [thus means that the beat of] his heart was suspended and his breathing ceased, for the movement of the heart ceased and he was as dead. This condition is known when joy suddenly comes upon one, and it is mentioned in the books of medicines that old or feeble persons cannot withstand the shock, for many of them faint when joy comes to them very suddenly. The heart widens and opens suddenly, and its natural heat goes out and scatters throughout the outer parts of the body, and the heart thus ceases to function because of its coolness. Thus the patriarch fell as dead. Scripture says, for he believed them not, in order to relate that he remained in that condition a great part of the day, and he lay so without movement because he did not believe them.
Concerning such fainting it is known that people shout to the fainting person and accustom him to that joyful event gradually until he accepts it with a tranquil spirit. And this is the meaning of the verse, And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them, and when he saw the wagons [which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived],⁶⁸Verse 27 here. for they shouted into his ears the words of Joseph and brought the wagons before him. Then did his spirit return to him, and his breathing began and he was revived. It is this which Scripture says, And the spirit of Jacob their father revived. Now Onkelos translated: “The Divine Presence, [which had departed from him when he was in mourning], again rested upon him.” Onkelos added this because the thing is true, and he expounded this interpretation from the word ruach (spirit), since Scripture does not say, “and Jacob their father revived,” [but rather, and the spirit of Jacob their father revived]. He thus explained the verse here as being analogous to these verses: The spirit of the Eternal G-d is upon me;⁶⁹Isaiah 61:1. And now the Eternal G-d hath sent me and His spirit;⁷⁰Ibid., 48:16. A man in whom is spirit.⁷¹Numbers 27:18.

וכי הוא מושל, do not be afraid to come to him.