Tanach
Zecharyah 7:4-7 זכריה ז׳:ד׳-ז׳
Part of: Chapter 7
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וַיְהִי דְּבַר־יְהֹוָה צְבָאוֹת אֵלַי לֵאמֹֽר׃
Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
אֱמֹר אֶל־כׇּל־עַם הָאָרֶץ וְאֶל־הַכֹּהֲנִים לֵאמֹר כִּֽי־צַמְתֶּם וְסָפוֹד בַּחֲמִישִׁי וּבַשְּׁבִיעִי וְזֶה שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה הֲצוֹם צַמְתֻּנִי אָֽנִי׃
Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you really fasted?
Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you really fasted?
Rashi
הצום צמתוני אני. ה"א נקודה חטף פתח לפי שהיא משמשת ל' תמיהא שמא לכבודי צמתם שתהיו צריכים לצום גם עתה:
did you fast for Me, even for Me The ‘he’ is vowelized with a ‘hataf pattah’ because it is used as the interrogative: Did you fast in My honor that you should be required to fast now, too?
וְכִי תֹאכְלוּ וְכִי תִשְׁתּוּ הֲלוֹא אַתֶּם הָאֹכְלִים וְאַתֶּם הַשֹּׁתִֽים׃
And when you did eat, and when you did drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
And when you did eat, and when you did drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
Rashi
וכי תאכלו וכי תשתו. ואם לא תצומו מה לי גם בזו הלא אתם להנאתכם הוא המאכל והמשתה:
And when you eat and when you drink And, if you do not fast, that, too, means nothing to Me. Are not the food and the drink for your own pleasure?
הֲלוֹא אֶת־הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר קָרָא יְהֹוָה בְּיַד הַנְּבִיאִים הָרִֽאשֹׁנִים בִּהְיוֹת יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם יֹשֶׁבֶת וּשְׁלֵוָה וְעָרֶיהָ סְבִיבֹתֶיהָ וְהַנֶּגֶב וְהַשְּׁפֵלָה יֹשֵֽׁב׃ {פ}
Should you not hear the words which the Lord has proclaimed by the former prophets, when Yerushalayim was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities round about her, when the Negev and the coastal plain were inhabited?
Should you not hear the words which the Lord has proclaimed by the former prophets, when Yerushalayim was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities round about her, when the Negev and the coastal plain were inhabited?
Rashi
הלא את הדברים. מי גרם לכם הצום והמספד הלא דברי תוכחות אשר קרא ה' וגו' הם החריבו אתכם ועל כן צמתם ואלה הדברים אשר קרא משפט אמת שפטו:
Was it not the words Who caused you the fast and the mourning? Was it not the words of reproof that the Lord proclaimed, etc.? They brought about your destruction, and therefore you fasted. And these are the words that He proclaimed: Execute true judgment.
ובשביעי. הוא צום גדליה:
and in the seventh [month] That is the fast of Gedaliah.