출애굽기 18:26의 인용 해설

This chapter should have appropriately. A question is widely asked: Why did Rashi link this to his previous comment? The answer is that if he had not explained “Fortunate is the mortal…” I would have said that this chapter was not said in Moshe’s name as punishment for him having said “every difficult matter…” (Shemos 18:26). However now that he explained “Fortunate is the mortal…” and the verse speaks in a manner that praises Moshe, why then is this passage not said in his name? Thus he explains “[This chapter should have] appropriately…”

והיו תואמים ויחדו יהיו תמים, ”they would match twin like, exactly at the bottom, and join together into a ring at the top (so that they will be eight);” the verse is to be understood as follows: the word יהיו next to the word יחדו is to be understood as in the present tense as in Exodus 18,26: יביאון אל משה “they would bring to Moses,“ or as at the end of that verse: ישפוטו הם, “they would judge.” The author cites more such examples of words sounding as if in the future tense really describing the present tense.