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text: Rashi on Zechariah
  רש"י על זכריה
  Rabbi Mike Feuer, Jerusalem Anthology
  
  
  Rashi on Zechariah
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  For I bend Judah for Me – in the end, Antiochus will take the kingship from the hands of the kings of Persia and do evil to you. Then I will draw out Yehudah to be like my war bow and they will fight Antiochus in days of the Hasmoneans:
  I filled Ephraim – this is a cut short statement which ought to read ‘like a bow; I filled the hand of Ephraim,’ similar to “…And Jehu put all his strength into his bow…” (Melachim II 9:24), meaning that Ephraim will be to Me as a quiver full of arrows:
  And I will arouse your children, O Zion – upon the armies of Antiochus
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  And it will come to pass on that day – When the Mount of Olives is split east to west: living water will come out from Jerusalem – And go eastwards, via that split, down to the eastern sea which is on the east side of the world and half of it will flow westwards to the western sea. This is the spring of which Yoel prophesied, and the spring which comes out from the house of the Lord is the stream of which Ezekiel prophesied “…and he measure a thousand and brought me through water…”