## Rashi on Jeremiah Chapter 41

###### Rashi on Jeremiah 41:1:1
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**וְרַבֵּי הַמֶּלֶךְ.** וְשָׂרֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ. נִתְקַנְּאוּ בּוֹ שֶׁנָּטַל גְּדֻלָּה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and officers of the king** They were jealous of him that he took a high position.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 41:5:1
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**לְהָבִיא בֵּית ה׳.** כְּשֶׁנָּסְעוּ מִבֵּיתָם לֹא הָיוּ יוֹדְעִים בְּחֻרְבַּן הַבַּיִת, וּבַדֶּרֶךְ שָׁמְעוּ וְקָרְעוּ בִּגְדֵיהֶם וְגִלְּחוּ זְקָנָם (מועד קטן כו.):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to bring to the house of the Lord** When they left home, they were unaware of the destruction of the Temple, and en route, they heard of it, and rent their clothing and shaved their beards.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 41:5:2
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**וּמִתְגּוֹדְדִים.** לְשׁוֹן שְׂרִיטָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and having cut themselves** An expression [denoting] laceration.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 41:9:1
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**אֲשֶׁר הִכָּה בְּיַד גְּדַלְיָהוּ.** מִתּוֹךְ שֶׁהָיָה לוֹ לָחוּשׁ לַעֲצַת יוֹחָנָן בֶּן קָרֵחַ וְלֹא חָשׁ (ירמיה מ:יג-טז), הֶעֱלָה עָלָיו כְּאִלּוּ נֶהֶרְגוּ עַל יָדוֹ (נדה סא.):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**through Gedaliah** Heb. ביד, [lit. by the hand of Gedaliah]. Since he should have heeded the counsel of Johanan the son of Kareah, and he did not heed, Scripture accounts it for him as though they had been slain by him.


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 41:12:1
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**אֶל מַיִם רַבִּים.** ״עַל בְּרֵכַת מַיִּין סַגִּיאִין״ (תרגום יונתן):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**by the great waters** [By the pool of great waters.]


###### Rashi on Jeremiah 41:17:1
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**בְּגֵרוּת כִּמְהָם.** ״בְּגֵרוּת דִּיהַב דָּוִד לְכִמְהָם בַּר בַּרְזִלַּי גִּלְעָדָאָה״ (תרגום יונתן), כְּשֶׁשָּׁב מִמִּלְחֶמֶת אַבְשָׁלוֹם, כְּמוֹ שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בְּסֵפֶר שְׁמוּאֵל ״אִתִּי יַעֲבֹר כִּמְהָם וְגוֹ׳״ (שמואל ב יט:לט):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**in Geruth Chimham** In the sojourning place that David gave to Chimham the son of Barzilai the Gileadite when he returned from the war of Absalom, as it is stated in the Book of Samuel (II 19: 39): “Chimham shall go over with me.”