Tanach
Zecharyah 2:3-4 זכריה ב׳:ג׳-ד׳
Part of: Chapter 2
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וַיַּרְאֵנִי יְהֹוָה אַרְבָּעָה חָרָשִֽׁים׃
And the Lord showed me four craftsmen.
And the Lord showed me four craftsmen.
Rashi
וָאֹמַר מָה אֵלֶּה בָאִים לַֽעֲשׂוֹת וַיֹּאמֶר לֵאמֹר אֵלֶּה הַקְּרָנוֹת אֲשֶׁר־זֵרוּ אֶת־יְהוּדָה כְּפִי־אִישׁ לֹא־נָשָׂא רֹאשׁוֹ וַיָּבֹאוּ אֵלֶּה לְהַחֲרִיד אֹתָם לְיַדּוֹת אֶת־קַרְנוֹת הַגּוֹיִם הַנֹּשְׂאִים קֶרֶן אֶל־אֶרֶץ יְהוּדָה לְזָרוֹתָֽהּ׃ {ס}
Then said I, What are they coming to do? And he spoke, saying, Those were the horns which scattered Yehuda, so that no man could lift up his head: but these are come to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn over the land of Yehuda to scatter it.
Then said I, What are they coming to do? And he spoke, saying, Those were the horns which scattered Yehuda, so that no man could lift up his head: but these are come to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn over the land of Yehuda to scatter it.
Rashi
ואומר מה אלה הקרנות אשר ראיתי בראשונה:
And he said, saying, “These are the horns” that you first saw.
אשר זרו את יהודה והשפילום עד כפי איש לא נשא ראשו ולא נתנו לאחד מבני עמי להרים ראש:
that scattered Judah and humbled them to the extent that no man lifted his head, and they did not allow anyone of My people to raise his head.
ויבאו אלה. החרשים להחריד אותן הקרנות ולידות אותן:
And these came These craftsmen came to cause those horns to quake and to cast them away.
לידות. להשליך:
to cast away לְיַדּוֹת
ארבעה חרשים. נגרים היודעים לנסר את הקרנות ורבותינו פירשו במסכת סוכה מי הם:
four craftsmen Carpenters who know how to saw the horns. And our Rabbis explained in tractate Sukkah (52b) who they are.