Rashis Flashcards
לך לך
Translation Q and A
For your pleasure for your good and there I will make you into a great nation and I will make worthy of the children also your name will be known to the world
What does לך לךmean?
Go for your own pleasure and for you good. If you go you will merit children and will have a reputation
ואעשך לגוי גדול
Translation
Q and A
And I will make you into a great nation. Before you go on your way, it was affect three things. It affects your chance of having children. There’s a small chance if making money, small chance of having a reputation
Why is it repetitive?
HaShem is reassuring HaShem that he will give him these things.
והיה ברכה
Q and A
What blessing?
HaShem is giving Avraham the ability to give blessings
אשר עשו בחרון
Q and A
What souls did he make? How do you make one?
He converted them, he bought them
והכנעני אז בארץ
Q and A
Why is the pasuk singling out who lives in the land?
HaShem was reassuring Avraham that he will get the land back even if someone is in it
ויט אהלה אהלו
Q and A
Whose tent is it talking abt?
Avraham pitched Sara’s tent before his
רעב בארץ
Q and A
Why is there a famine in the land?
It was one of Abraham’s tests
ויהי כהוא אברם מצרימה
Q and A
Why does it say he came instead of they came?
Avram hid Sara in a box
ויהללו אתה אל פרעה
Q and A
Why are they praising her?
Because if her beauty, she could be the queen
Who is praising her?
The officers
ויצו עליו
He sent the men to protect them - bodyguards
וינגע ה׳ את פרעה
Sefarno vs Rashi
Rashi: He was hit with the ראתן plague That made relations hard What is the great afflictions? He was hit with the ראתן plague Sefarno: Only pharaoh alone, was hit with the big affliction Pharaoh got it worse
נגעים גדולים
Sefarno vs Rashi
Both say the same. That he got hit with great afflictions
Rashi: ואת-ביתו
Translation
Q and A
How many answers does Rashi bring?
It afflicted the men of his household The walls, pillars and utensils Where is the punishment? What does it mean on his house? It was both his house and household 2
Seforno: ואת ביתו
Translation
A
His household also got the plague
It was not as worse as pharaoh
And this, in order that they will see the righteous woman alone was not affected
And they will recognize that because in order that to return them from evil
על דבר שרי אשת אברם sefarno vs Rashi
Rashi: According to her speech
She said to an angel attack and he sent a plague
דבר what does it mean?
It means her speech (Rashi) (literal) the fact that was the wife of Avraham
Thing (literal) and sleek (deeper meaning)
Sefarno: pharaoh got it worse so his ppl would see that he’s bad and he only getting it not Sara
