## Rashi on Megillah Daf 16a

###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:1:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:1:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:1:1)

שמשי - סופר המלך שונא ישראל היה ומימות כורש היה כמו שנאמר בספר עזרא (סימן ד) שכתב שטנה על בנין הבית עד שבא כורש וביטלו ואף בימי אחשורוש עשה כן שנאמר (שם) ובמלכות אחשורוש בתחלת מלכותו כתב שטנה:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Shimshai:** The king's scribe was an anti-Semite; and he was [the royal scribe] from the times of Cyrus. As it is stated in the book of Ezra (4) that he wrote an accusation against building the Temple, until Cyrus came and annulled it. And he also did this in the days of Ahasuerus, as it is stated (Ezra 4:6), "And in the reign of Ahasuerus, at the start of his reign, (he) wrote an accusation."


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:3:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:3:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:3:1)

לו הכין - לצורך עצמו:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**He had prepared for himself:** For his own need (to hang himself).


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:5:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:5:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:5:1)

דיסקרתא - כפר:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
***Disekarta*:** A village.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:5:2
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:5:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:5:2)

נהרא - ליטול מכס:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**A river:** To take taxes (from those crossing it).


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:6:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:6:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:6:1)

לרבנן - תלמידיו:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**To the rabbis:** His students.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:6:2
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:6:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:6:2)

הלכות קמיצה - דורש בענינו של יום וששה עשר בניסן היה הוא יום תנופת העומר:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**The laws of the handful:** He was expounding about the matter of that day, and it was the sixteenth of Nissan - which is the day of the waving of the *omer*.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:8:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:8:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:8:1)

ואשקול למזייא - ואטול שערי:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
***Ve'eshkol le'maziya*:** And I will [trim] my hair.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:9:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:9:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:9:1)

אסרתינהו - צותה עליהן להחביאן:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Closed them:** She commanded about them, that they be hidden.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:9:2
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:9:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:9:2)

אומני - ספרים:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**Craftsmen:** Barbers,


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:9:3
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:9:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:9:3)

זוזא - זוג של ספרים כעין מספרים:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
***Zuza*:** A barber's clippers, similar to scissors.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:11:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:11:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:11:1)

עציץ - כלי חרס:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
***Atzitz*:** A clay pot.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:12:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:12:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:12:1)

ולתעניתו - יום שלישי לתענית היה שהתחילו להתענות בי"ד בניסן ומה שאמר המקרא ליום אתמול שלישי ויהי ביום השלישי ותלבש אסתר מלכות יום שלישי לשילוח הרצים היה:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**And to his fasting:** The third day of his fasting, as they began to fast on the fourteenth of Nissan. And that which Scripture stated about the previous day (Esther 5:1) - "On the third day, Esther put on royal apparel" - that was the third day from the sending of the runners.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:14:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:14:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:14:1)

אם מזרע היהודים - יש זרע ביהודים שאם הוא בא מהם לא תוכל לו:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**If he is of the seed of the Jews:** There is some seed (offspring) among the Jews, such that if he comes from them, you cannot prevail over him.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:16:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:16:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:16:1)

מלמד שהביאוהו בבהלה - ולא רחץ יפה מטינופו:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**This teaches that they brought him in disarray:** And he did not wash properly from his filthiness.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:17:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:17:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:17:1)

שוה - חושש:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
***Shoveh*:** Care.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:19:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:19:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:19:1)

מלמד שהיתה מחווה כנגד אחשורוש - מרבוי אתה לומד איש צר ואויב המן הרע הזה:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**This teaches that she was pointing toward Ahasuerus:**, From the extraneous language: "An adversary and enemy, this wicked Haman."


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:21:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:21:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:21:1)

נופל - לשון עושה והולך נופל ורוצה לזקוף והמלאך מפילו:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
***Nofel*:** It is [in the tense] of goes; and walks (present tense): He falls and wants to get up, but the angel makes him [continuously] fall.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:22:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:22:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:22:1)

וישלך עליו - הקב"ה משליך פורענות על הרשע בלי חמלה:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**And it hurls at him:** The Holy One, blessed be He, hurls punishment at the wicked one without compassion.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:22:2
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:22:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:22:2)

מידו ברוח יברח - בני סייעתו וחבריו בורחים מידו:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**He would fain flee out of its hand:** The people of his group and his friends flee from his hand.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:23:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:23:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:23:1)

אחת של אסתר - שהיה כעוס אחשורוש על מה שעשה המן לאסתר:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**One for Esther:** As Ahasuerus was angry about what Haman did to Esther.


###### Rashi on Megillah 16a:24:1
[Rashi on Megillah 16a:24:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Megillah/r/16a:24:1)

דבר שנצטער בו אותו צדיק - לעבד נמכר יוסף על ידי קנאת אחיו:

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
**The thing from which that righteous man Joseph had suffered:** Yosef was sold as a slave on account of the jealousy of his brothers.