## Rashi on Jeremiah Chapter 16

###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:5:1
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**בֵּית מַרְזֵחַ.** מִשְׁתֶּה; בְּסִפְרֵי בְּפָרָשַׁת בֵּית פְּעוֹר(ספרי פיסקא קלא) רָאִיתִי: חָזְרוּ לַעֲשׂוֹת לָהֶם מַרְזֵיחִין; אֲבָל רַבּוֹתֵינוּ פֵּרְשׁוּ (כתובות סט:) **מַרְזֵחַ** – אֵבֶל:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**house of mourning** feasting. In Sifrei, in the section dealing with Beth-peor (Balak), I saw. They returned to make feasts (מַרְזֵיחִין) for them, but our Rabbis explained מַרְזֵחַ as ‘a mourner.’


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:5:2
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**תָּנוּד.** תְּקוֹנֵן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**you bemoan** you shall lament.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:5:3
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**כִּי אָסַפְתִּי אֶת שְׁלוֹמִי וגו׳.** כְּשֶׁהָיָה אַבְרָהָם אֲבִיהֶם עוֹשֶׂה צְדָקָה וּמִשְׁפָּט (בראשית יח:יט), נָתַתִּי לְזַרְעוֹ חֶסֶד וְרַחֲמִים: ״וְשָׁמַר ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ לְךָ וגו׳״ (דברים ז:יב), ״וְנָתַן לְךָ רַחֲמִים״ (דברים יג:יח). הֵם הָפְכוּ לַלַּעֲנָה מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה לָאָרֶץ הִנִּיחוּ (עמוס ה:ז), אַף אֲנִי חָזַרְתִּי וְאָסַפְתִּי אֵלַי אֶת חַסְדִּי וְאֶת רַחֲמִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for I have gathered in My peace, etc.** When their father Abraham performed charity and justice, I gave his children loving-kindness and mercy, as in Deut. 7:12: “And the Lord your God shall keep for you the covenant and the loving-kindness, etc.” Also (Deut. 13:18), “And He shall give you mercy.” They turned “justice into wormwood, and cast righteousness to the ground” (Amos 5:7). I, too, have returned and gathered in to Me My loving-kindness and My mercies.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:5:4
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**אָסַפְתִּי.** אטואי״ש בְּלַעַ״ז, כְּמוֹ ״אָסַף אֱלֹהִים אֶת חֶרְפָּתִי״ (בראשית ל:כג):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I have gathered in** (ote in O.F.), taken off. Comp. (Gen. 30:23) “God has gathered (אסף) in my disgrace.”


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:6:1
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**וּמֵתוּ גְדוֹלִים וּקְטַנִּים.** וְאַחַר שֶׁהַכֹּל מֵתִים, מַה לְּךָ לִסְפּוֹד?

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And large and small shall die** And since everyone will die, why should you lament?


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:6:2
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**וְלֹא יִתְגּוֹדֵד וְלֹא יִקָּרֵחַ לָהֶם.** דֶּרֶךְ הָאֲבֵלִים לְהִתְגּוֹדֵד וְלִשְׂרֹט בְּשָׂרָם וְלִקְרוֹחַ קָרְחָה בְּרֹאשָׁם; וּמִכָּל מָקוֹם, לְיִשְׂרָאֵל אָסוּר (ויקרא יט:כח; דברים יד:א), וְלֹא הִזְכִּירוֹ כָּאן אֶלָּא לְדוּגְמַת אֵבֶל:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and they shall not cut their flesh nor shall they tear their hair for them** It is the custom of mourners to cut and tear their flesh and to tear their hair our of their head. In any case, it is forbidden for Jews, but he mentions it here only as an example of mourning.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:7:1
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**וְלֹא יִפְרְסוּ.** לְשׁוֹן שְׁבִירָה, כְּמוֹ ״מְנֵא מְנֵא תְּקֵל וּפַרְסִין״ (דניאל ה:כה); שֶׁמַּבְרִין אֶת הָאֲבֵלִים בָּרְחָבָה וּפוֹרְסִין לָהֶם בִּרְכַּת הַמּוֹצִיא. ״כִּי הוּא יְבָרֵךְ הַזֶּבַח״ (שמואל א ט:יג) – תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: ״אֲרֵי הוּא פָּרִיס עַל מְזוֹנָא״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And they shall not break [bread] for them** an expression of breaking. Comp. (Dan. 5:25) “Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin, (divided).” This alludes to the practice of giving a meal to the mourners in the city square and they break for them the bread upon reciting the blessing of ‘hamotzi.’ (I Sam. 9: 13) “For he will bless the sacrifices,” Jonathan renders: He will break (פָרִיס) bread.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:7:2
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**וְלֹא יַשְׁקוּ אוֹתָם וְגוֹ׳.** הֲרֵי טַעַם לָמָּה שֶׁאָמַרְתִּי: **אַל תֵּלֵךְ לִסְפּוֹד**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**neither will they give them to drink etc** This is the reason for what I said, “Neither go to lament.”


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:8:1
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**וּבֵית מִשְׁתֶּה.** אֲשֶׁר אָמַרְתִּי לְךָ לְמַעְלָה **לֹא תָבוֹא**, זֶה הַטַּעַם: **הִנְנִי מַשְׁבִּית מִן הַמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה וְגוֹ׳**:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And to a house of feasting** that I said to you above, “You shall not go,” this is the reason: Behold, I will cut off from this place, etc.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:13:1
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**וְעָבַדְתֶּם שָׁם אֶת אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים.** תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: ״וְתִפְלְחוּן תַּמָּן לְעַמְמַיָּא פָּלְחֵי טָעֲוָותָא״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and you will serve there other gods** Jonathan paraphrases: And you will serve there nations that worship idols day and night.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:14:1
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**לָכֵן.** לְשׁוֹן שְׁבוּעָה, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁבְּגַדְתֶּם בִּי, שְׁבוּעָה הִיא בְּיָדִי שֶׁאֶגְאוֹל אֶתְכֶם:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**Therefore** An expression of an oath. Although you betrayed Me, I have an oath that I will redeem you.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:14:2
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**וְלֹא יֵאָמֵר עוֹד וגו׳.** רַבּוֹתֵינוּ דָּרְשׁוּ (ברכות יב:) לֹא שֶׁתֵּעָקֵר יְצִיאַת מִצְרַיִם מִמְּקוֹמָהּ, אֶלָּא גְּאֻלָּה אַחֲרוֹנָה עִקָּר וִיצִיאַת מִצְרַיִם טָפֵל לָהּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and it shall no longer be said** Our Rabbis expounded: Not that the departure from Egypt shall be uprooted from its place, but the final redemption will be the most important and the departure from Egypt secondary to it.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:16:1
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**וְדִיגוּם.** מָה הַדַּיָּג שׁוֹלְהוּ מִתּוֹךְ מְקוֹם גִּדּוּלוֹ, אַף אֵלּוּ יִלְכְּדוּ אוֹתָם בְּתוֹךְ הָעִיר; וּמָה עִסְקוֹ שֶׁל דָּג, מִשֶּׁנִּלְכַּד הוּא מֵת, כָּךְ אָבִיא עֲלֵיהֶם הוֹרְגִים; **וְאַחֲרֵי כֵן אֶשְׁלַח צַיָּדִים** לַנִּשְׁאָרִים וְלַבּוֹרְחִים מִן הַחֶרֶב עַל הַהָרִים וְהַגְּבָעוֹת, **וְצָדוּם** – לְהַגְלוֹתָם בַּשֶּׁבִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and they will fish them** Just as the fisher takes - it i.e., - the fish from its habitat, so will these capture them within the city, and just as the manner of a fish, that when he is caught he dies, so will I bring killers upon them, and afterwards I will send hunters for the survivors and for those who flee from the sword to the mountains and the hills, and they will hunt them to exile them in captivity.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:18:1
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**מִשְׁנֵה עֲוֹנָם.** אֶת שֶׁשָּׁנוּ עַל עֲוֹנָם לַעֲשׂוֹת עֲוֹנוֹת אֲבוֹתֵיהֶם; וְיוֹנָתָן תִּרְגֵּם כֵּן: ״וַאֲשִׁלֵּים לְתִנְיָינִין כְּקַדְמָאִין עַל חַד תְּרֵין״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**the doubling of their iniquity** Because they repeated their iniquity to do the iniquities of their fathers. And Jonathan renders in this manner: And I will recompense the second ones like the first ones double.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:19:1
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**ה׳ עֻזִּי וּמָעֻזִּי וּמְנוּסִי.** אַנְטִיפוֹיְימַאנְ״ט בְּלַעַ״ז, וּמְנַחֵם חִבְּרוֹ לְשׁוֹן פֶּלֶא, כְּמוֹ ״נָתַתָּ לִּירֵאֶיךָ נֵּס לְהִתְנוֹסֵס״ (תהלים ס:ו), וְכֵן ״ה׳ נִסִּי״ (שמות יז:טו). וְדוֹנָשׁ פָּתַר אוֹתוֹ לְשׁוֹן מָנוֹס מַמָּשׁ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and my refuge** (mon vantement in French), my boast. And Menahem (Machbereth p. 123) classified it as an expression of a wonder. Cf. (Psalms 60:6) “You have given those who fear You a wonder to be wondrous (נֵס לְהִתְנוֹסֵס).”


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:19:2
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**אֵלֶיךָ גּוֹיִם יָבֹאוּ.** סוֹף הָאֻמּוֹת לָשׁוּב אֵלֶיךָ וּלְעָבְדְּךָ שְׁכֶם אֶחָד (צפניה ג:ט); וְעַמְּךָ, אֵיךְ עָשׂוּ לָהֶם **אֱלֹהִים וְהֵמָּה לֹא אֱלֹהִים**?!

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to You nations will come** Eventually, the heathens will come to you and worship You of one accord, and they will say, “How did they make gods for themselves, and they are no gods?”


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:19:3
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**מֵאַפְסֵי.** כְּמוֹ ״מִקְּצֵה״ (ירמיה יב:יב):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**from the ends of** Like מִקְצֵה, from the end of.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:19:4
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**נָחֲלוּ.** לְשׁוֹן נַחֲלָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**handed down** an expression of an inheritance.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:19:5
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**מוֹעִיל.** לְשׁוֹן תּוֹעֶלֶת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**avail** an expression of use (תּוֹעֶלֶת).


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 16:21:1
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**כִּי שְׁמִי ה׳.** כְּמַשְׁמָעוֹ: מוֹשֵׁל וְשַׁלִּיט לְקַיֵּם גְּזֵרָתִי (ויקרא רבה כד, א):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**that My name is the Lord** As its apparent meaning, a ruler and a sovereign to fulfill My decree.