## Rashi on Zechariah Chapter 1

###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:1:1
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נְבוּאַת זְכַרְיָה סְתוּמָה הִיא מְאֹד, כִּי יֵשׁ בָּהּ מַרְאוֹת דּוֹמוֹת לַחֲלוֹם הַנִּתָּן לְפִתְרוֹן, וְאֵין אָנוּ יְכוֹלִים לַעֲמֹד עַל אֲמִתַּת פִּתְרוֹנוֹ עַד יָבֹא מוֹרֶה צֶדֶק (הושע י:יב). וּלְפִי הַיְּכֹלֶת אֶתֵּן לֵב לְיַשֵּׁב הַמִּקְרָאוֹת אֶחָד אֶחָד מִן הַפִּתְרוֹנוֹת הַדּוֹמוֹת לוֹ, וְאַחַר פִּתְרוֹנוֹת שֶׁל יוֹנָתָן:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**The prophecy** of Zechariah is extremely enigmatic, because it contains visions resembling a dream that requires an interpretation. We cannot ascertain the truth of its interpretation until the teacher of righteousness comes. Nonetheless, I will put my heart to reconciling the verses, one by one, according to the interpretations that resemble it and following the interpretation of *Jonathan*.


###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:1:2
[Rashi on Zechariah 1:1:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Zechariah/r/1:1:2)

**בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁמִינִי.** קֹדֶם שֶׁהִתְחִילוּ לַחֲזוֹר וְלִבְנוֹת בַּמְּלָאכָה, שֶׁהֲרֵי בְּעֶשְׂרִים וְאַרְבָּעָה לַחֹדֶשׁ הִתְחִילוּ בָּהּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**In the eighth month** Before they commenced resuming the work of the construction, for they commenced it on the twenty-fourth day of the [ninth] month.


###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:2:1
[Rashi on Zechariah 1:2:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Zechariah/r/1:2:1)

**עַל אֲבוֹתֵיכֶם.** שֶׁבְּדוֹר חֻרְבַּן הַבַּיִת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**with your fathers** who were in the generation of the destruction of the Temple.


###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:5:1
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**אֲבוֹתֵיכֶם אַיֵּה הֵם.** רְאוּ שֶׁלָּקוּ מַכָּה רָעָה בָּרָעָב בַּחֶרֶב וּבַשֶּׁבִי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**[As for] your fathers - where are they?** See that they suffered an evil blow, with famine, with the sword, and with pestilence.


###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:5:2
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**וְהַנְּבִיאִים הַלְעוֹלָם יִחְיוּ.** וְאִם תֹּאמַר: אַף הַנְּבִיאִים אַיֵּה הֵם, הֲרֵי מֵתוּ? אֲנִי מֵשִׁיב לָכֶם: וְכִי הַנְּבִיאִים הָיָה לָהֶם לְעוֹלָם לִחְיוֹת? אַךְ סוֹפָן מוֹכִיחַ כִּי אֱמֶת הָיָה דִּבְרֵיהֶם, שֶׁכָּל דְּבָרַי וְחֻקַּי גְּזֵרוֹת פֻּרְעָנוּתִי אֲשֶׁר צִוִּיתִי אֶת עֲבָדַי הַנְּבִיאִים עֲלֵיכֶם, **הֲלֹא הִשִּׂיגוּ אֲבֹתֵיכֶם.**

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**But the prophets - do they live forever?** And if you ask, “the prophets, too where are they? Have they not died?” I [God] will answer you, “Should the prophets have lived forever?” But their end proves that their words were true; for all My words, and the declarations of the decrees of My retribution that I commanded My servants, the prophets, concerning you - did they not overtake your fathers?


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

**רָאִיתִי הַלַּיְלָה וְגוֹ׳.** רַבּוֹתֵינוּ פֵּרְשׁוּ מַה שֶּׁפֵּרְשׁוּ בְּאַגָּדַת חֵלֶק (סנהדרין צג.), אַךְ אֵין סֵדֶר הַפָּרָשָׁה וְהַלָּשׁוֹן מִתְיַשֵּׁב בּוֹ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I saw tonight** Our Sages explained [this phrase as] they explained [it] in the Aggadah of the chapter entitled “*Helek*” (*Sanh.* 93a), but the sequence of the chapter and the language do not fit it.


###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:8:2
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**וְהִנֵּה אִישׁ.** מַלְאָךְ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and behold! A man** an angel.


###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:8:3
[Rashi on Zechariah 1:8:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Zechariah/r/1:8:3)

**עַל סוּס אָדֹם.** רֶמֶז הוּא לִפָּרַע מִכַּשְׂדִּים מִמָּדַי וּפָרַס בַּחֶרֶב וּבַדָּם, כְּמוֹ שֶׁהוּא אוֹמֵר כָּאן ״וְקֶצֶף גָּדוֹל אֲנִי קֹצֵף עַל הָגּוֹיִם״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**on a red horse** This is an allusion that He would exact retribution upon the Chaldeans, Media, and Persia with the sword and with blood, as He says (verse 15 below): “And I was very wroth with the nations.”


###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:8:4
[Rashi on Zechariah 1:8:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Zechariah/r/1:8:4)

**וְאַחֲרָיו סוּסִים אֲדֻמִּים וְגוֹ׳.** מוּכָנִים לִשְׁלִיחוּתוֹ שֶׁל מָקוֹם, וְיֵשׁ בָּהֶם מִינֵי צְבָעִים הַרְבֵּה, וְשֶׁבַח הוּא לוֹ. **שְׂרֻקִּים.** לֹא יָדַעְתִּי מַה צֶבַע הוּא, וְיוֹנָתָן תִּרְגֵּם: ״קְוָוחִין״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and after him were red, etc., horses** prepared for the mission of the Omnipresent. That there were among them [horses of] many sorts of colors was a [means of] praise for him. **black** do not know what color this is. *Jonathan* rendered קְוָחִין.


###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:8:5
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**בֵּין הַהֲדַסִּים אֲשֶׁר בַּמְּצוּלָה.** בֵּין אִילָנֵי דְהַדַסַּיָּא דִּבְבָבֶל (סנהדרין צג.):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**among the myrtles that were in the pool** Among the myrtle trees of Babylon.


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

**וָאֹמַר.** לַמַּלְאָךְ אֶחָד אֲשֶׁר הָיָה מַרְאֶה אוֹתִי כָּל זֹאת **מָה אֵלֶּה אֲדֹנִי.** וְהוּא הָרוֹכֵב עַל סוּס אָדֹם (זכריה א:ח):

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And I said** to one angel who showed me all this. **“What are these, my lord?”** He was the one riding on the red horse.


###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:10:1
[Rashi on Zechariah 1:10:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Zechariah/r/1:10:1)

**לְהִתְהַלֵּךְ בָּאָרֶץ.** לִרְאוֹת אֶת שַׁלְוַת הָעַוֹבְדֵי כּוֹכָבִים וּמַזָּלוֹת:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**to walk to and fro on the earth** To see the tranquility of the nations.


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

**וַיַּעַן מַלְאַךְ ה׳.** הוּא הַדּוֹבֵר בִּי:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And the angel of the Lord replied** The angel that was speaking to me.


###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:13:1
[Rashi on Zechariah 1:13:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Zechariah/r/1:13:1)

**וַיַּעַן ה׳, אֶת הַמַּלְאָךְ הַדּוֹבֵר בִּי דְּבָרִים טוֹבִים.** לֹא שֶׁשָּׁמַע הַנָּבִיא מַה עָנָה, אַךְ מִמַּה שֶּׁאָמַר הַמַּלְאָךְ לוֹ ״קְרָא לֵאמֹר קִנֵּאתִי וְגוֹ׳״, אֲנִי יוֹדֵעַ שֶׁדְּבָרִים טוֹבִים עָנָהוּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**And the Lord answered the angel who was speaking to me, good words** Not that the prophet heard what He answered [the angel], but from what the angel said to him, “Proclaim, saying, ‘I am jealous etc.,’” I know that He answered him good words.


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

**קִנֵּאתִי לְצִיּוֹן.** ״מִתְפָּרַע אֲנָא פּוּרְעָנוּת דִּין יְרוּשָׁלַיִם מִן הַמְּצִיקִים לָהּ״:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**I am jealous for Jerusalem** I am exacting the retribution [for] the cause of Jerusalem from those who oppress her.


###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:15:1
[Rashi on Zechariah 1:15:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Zechariah/r/1:15:1)

**הַשַּׁאֲנַנִּים.** אֲשֶׁר אֵלּוּ אוֹמְרִים עֲלֵיהֶם, שֶׁהֵם יוֹשְׁבִים וּשְׁקֵטִים:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**that are at ease** Concerning whom these [messengers] say that they sit still and are at rest.


###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:15:2
[Rashi on Zechariah 1:15:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Zechariah/r/1:15:2)

**אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי קָצַפְתִּי.** עַל עַמִּי מְעָט:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**for I was wroth** with My people, a little.


###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:15:3
[Rashi on Zechariah 1:15:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Zechariah/r/1:15:3)

**וְהֵמָּה עָזְרוּ.** עַל הַקֶּצֶף לְרָעָה:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and they helped to do harm** In addition to the wrath, [they helped] to do harm.


###### Rashi on Zechariah 1:16:1
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**וְקָו יִנָּטֶה.** לָמֹד חוֹמוֹתֶיהָ אָרְכָּהּ וְרָחְבָּהּ:

**The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg:**
**and a plumb line shall be stretched out** to measure its wall, its length and breadth.