## Rashi on Judges Chapter 7 ###### Rashi on Judges 7:1:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:1:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:1:1) **מִגִּבְעַת הַמּוֹרֶה בָּעֵמֶק.** (תרגום:) דְּמִסְתַּכְּיָא לְמֵישְׁרָא. הַמּוֹרֶה, לְשׁוֹן הוֹרָאָה וּרְאִיָּה, כְּמוֹ (משלי ו:יג) מוֹרֶה בְּאֶצְבְּעוֹתָיו, שֶׁמִּשָּׁם צוֹפִים וְרוֹמְזִים בָּעֵמֶק: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **Of signal valley ridge.** Overlooking the plain¹. הַמּוֹרֶה connotes instruction, observation, as in "instructs by gesturing."² From there they would observe, and then signal instructions to the valley. footnotes: ¹ This is Targum Yonasan’s interpretation. The ridge overlooked the plain, and was thus suitable as an observation post. ² Mishlei, 6:13. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:2:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:2:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:2:1) **יִתְפָּאֵר.** וונטי״ר בְּלַעַ״ז: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **Glorify.** "Vanter" in old French. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:3:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:3:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:3:1) **וַיִּצְפֹּר.** בַּבֹּקֶר, לְשׁוֹן אֲרָמִי: צַפְרָא: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **In the morning.** In the morning is צַפְדׇא in Aramaic. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:5:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:5:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:5:1) **כֹּל אֲשֶׁר יָלֹק בִּלְשׁוֹנוֹ וְגוֹ׳ וְכֹל אֲשֶׁר יִכְרַע עַל בִּרְכָּיו לִשְׁתּוֹת.** תַּצִּיג אוֹתוֹ לְבַד חוּץ מִסִּיעָתְךָ, כִּי הֵם לֹא יֵלְכוּ עִמְּךָ, שֶׁכָּךְ הֵם לְמוּדִים לִכְרוֹעַ לִפְנֵי עֲבוֹדַת גִּלּוּלִים: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **Anyone who laps with his tongue, etc.** Anyone who bends forward while on his knees to drink, set them aside, out of your retinue. They shall not accompany you, since they are practiced in kneeling before idols.³ footnotes: ³ Both phrases of this passage—“Anyone who laps, etc.” and “anyone who bends forward, etc.”—refer to the same drinkers. Those who bend forward while on their knees, bringing their faces down to the water in order to lap it up, are practiced in prostrating themselves before idols. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:6:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:6:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:6:1) **הַמְלַקְקִים בְּיָדָם.** אֵין זֶה דֶּרֶךְ כְּרִיעָה כְּלוֹקֵק בִּלְשׁוֹנוֹ: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **Who lapped from hand.** This is not the kind of bending forward as when lapping up with the tongue.⁴ footnotes: ⁴ Lapping from hand to mouth does not involve prostrating oneself. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:12:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:12:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:12:1) **נֹפְלִים בָּעֵמֶק.** שׁוֹכְנִים בָּעֵמֶק: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **Lay in the valley.** Were stationed in the valley. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:13:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:13:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:13:1) **צְלִיל.** צָלוּל כְּתִיב, שֶׁהָיָה הַדּוֹר צָלוּל מִן הַצַּדִּיקִים: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **Toasted.** The written text is צׇלוּל, "clear".⁵ The generation was cleared of righteous men. footnotes: ⁵ Occasionally, the written Scriptural text, כְתַב, differs from the the spoken text, קֽרִי. Rashi notes that this is the case here, where the written text is צׇלוּל, while the spoken text is צְלִיל, “toasted”. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:13:2 [Rashi on Judges 7:13:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:13:2) **צְלִיל לֶחֶם שְׂעֹרִים.** (תרגום:) חֲרַר דְּלֶחֶם שְׂעוֹרִים, חֲרָרָה שֶׁאוֹפִין עַל הַגֶּחָלִים: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **A toasted barley bread.** A loaf of barley bread. A loaf toasted over coals. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:13:3 [Rashi on Judges 7:13:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:13:3) **לֶחֶם שְׂעֹרִים.** הוּא זְכוּת הָעוֹמֶר הַקָּרֵב בְּפֶסַח: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **Barley bread.** This represents the merit of the Omer offering, which was brought on Pesach.⁶ footnotes: ⁶ On the second day of Pesach. The offering consisted of barley meal. (Vayikra, 23:11,16. See Rashi there. Cf. Rashi above, 6:19). ###### Rashi on Judges 7:13:4 [Rashi on Judges 7:13:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:13:4) **וַיַּכֵּהוּ וַיִּפֹּל.** הָאֹהֶל: **וַיַּהַפְכֵהוּ.** הָאֹהֶל מִלְּמַטָּה לְמַעְלָה, וְנָפַל הָאֹהֶל: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **And hit it, and it collapsed** (the tent), **then it overturned** the tent, completely overturned, and the tent collapsed. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:15:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:15:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:15:1) **אֶת מִסְפַּר הַחֲלוֹם.** אֶת סִפּוּר הַחֲלוֹם, (תרגום:) יַת שׁוּעִית חֶלְמָא וְיַת פִּשְׁרֵיהּ: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **The recounting of the dream.** The story of the dream.⁷ "The retelling of the dream and its interpretation."⁸ footnotes: ⁷ מִסְפַר, generally translated as “number”, is interpreted here as “story”. ⁸ This is Targum Yonasan’s translation. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:15:2 [Rashi on Judges 7:15:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:15:2) **וְאֶת שִׁבְרוֹ.** וְאֶת מִמְכָּרוֹ, כְּלוֹמַר: וְאֶת פִּתְרוֹנוֹ: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **And its interpretation [lit. "its sale"].** The goods exchanged for it,⁹ or its interpretation. footnotes: ⁹ According to the literal interpretation, “sale”. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:16:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:16:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:16:1) **שׁוֹפָרוֹת וְלַפִּידִים.** לְהַזְכִּיר זְכוּת מַתַּן תּוֹרָה וּפְשׁוּטוֹ: לַיְלָה הָיָה, כְּמוֹ שֶׁכָּתוּב (פסוק ט) וְהָיָה חֹשֶׁךְ, לְפִיכָךְ נָשְׂאוּ שָׁם לַפִּידִים לְהָאִיר לָהֶם וּנְתָנוּם בַּכַּדִּים כְּדֵי שֶׁלֹּא יָבִינוּ בַּלַּפִּידִים: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **Shofars and torches** to invoke the merit of the giving of the Torah.¹⁰ According to the plain explanation: this took place at night, as it is written,¹¹ and it was dark. They therefore carried torches to provide them with light. They placed them in pitchers so that the torches would remain undetected. footnotes: ¹⁰ At Mount Sinai, when the shofar sounded, and fire descended on the mountain. (Shemos, 19:16–19). ¹¹ V. 9. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:17:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:17:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:17:1) **מִמֶּנִּי תִרְאוּ.** אֶת אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי עוֹשֶׂה, רְאוּ וַעֲשׂוּ כֵן: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **Watch me.** Watch my actions, and follow suit. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:18:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:18:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:18:1) **אָנֹכִי וְכָל אֲשֶׁר אִתִּי.** אֶחָד מִן הָרָאשִׁים, וּמֵאָה אִישׁ הָיָה עִמּוֹ (פסוק יט): **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **I, and everyone with me.** One of the divisions and one hundred men accompanied him. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:18:2 [Rashi on Judges 7:18:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:18:2) **לַה׳ וּלְגִדְעוֹן.** (תרגום:) חַרְבָּא דִּמְקַטְּלָא מִן קֳדָם ה׳ וְנִצְחָנָא עַל יְדֵי גִדְעוֹן: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **For Adonoy, and for Gidon.** The sword that executes is from Adonoy, so that victory is Gidon's.¹² footnotes: ¹² This is Targum Yonasan’s interpretation, following v. 20, “Adonoy’s sword, and for Gidon!” ###### Rashi on Judges 7:19:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:19:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:19:1) **הָקֵם הֵקִימוּ.** כְּבָר בְּנֵי הַחַיִל אֶת הַשּׁוֹמְרִים שֶׁהָיְתָה מִשְׁמַרְתָּם בָּאַשְׁמֹרֶת הַתִּיכוֹנָה, שֶׁכֵּן דֶּרֶךְ בְּנֵי גְיָיסוֹת לְהַעֲמִיד שׁוֹמְרִים, אֵלּוּ יִשְׁמְרוּ שְׁלִישׁ הַלַּיְלָה הָרִאשׁוֹן וְאֵלּוּ שְׁלִישׁ הַשֵּׁנִי, וְאֵלּוּ שְׁלִישׁ הָאַחֲרוֹן: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **Had posted.** The soldiers had already posted the sentries who were assigned to the middle watch. Members of the military usually assign sentry duty so that some serve during the first third of the night, some during the second third, and some during the final third.¹³ footnotes: ¹³ See Yalkut, 63. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:19:2 [Rashi on Judges 7:19:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:19:2) **וְנָפוֹץ הַכַּדִּים.** וְלִשְׁבּוֹר הַכַּדִּים אֲשֶׁר בְּיָדָם: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **And smashed the pitchers.** And broke¹⁴ the pitchers which were in their hands. footnotes: ¹⁴ נׇפוֹץ is sometimes translated as “dispersed”. Here, however, the translation is שָבוֹר, “broke”, as stated clearly in v.20. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:21:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:21:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:21:1) **וַיָּרִיעוּ.** תְּרוּעַת מַסָּע וְנִיסָה: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **They sounded the alarm.** The signal to withdraw and flee. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:24:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:24:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:24:1) **וְלִכְדוּ לָהֶם אֶת הַמַּיִם.** הַמַּפְסִיקִין בֵּין אֲרָם לְאֶרֶץ כְּנָעַן: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **Capture the waters** which intervene between Aram and Canaanite territory. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:24:2 [Rashi on Judges 7:24:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:24:2) **וְאֶת הַיַּרְדֵּן.** שֶׁגַּם הוּא הָיָה מַפְסִיק: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **And the Yardein** which also intervened. ###### Rashi on Judges 7:25:1 [Rashi on Judges 7:25:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Judges/r/7:25:1) **הֵבִיאוּ אֶל גִּדְעוֹן מֵעֵבֶר לַיַּרְדֵּן.** בַּבֹּקֶר, כְּשֶׁעָבַר גִּדְעוֹן אֶת הַיַּרְדֵּן לִרְדֹּף אַחַר זֶבַח וְצַלְמֻנָּע: **The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:** **They brought to Gidon, across the Yardein.** In the morning, when Gidon crossed the Yardein pursuing Zevach and Tzalmona.¹⁵