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MISHNEH MEANS DOUBLE |
EXAMPLE 1: Gn43-12a MISHNEH means DOUBLE (DOUBLE PAYMENT)
EXAMPLE 2: Ex16-05a MISHNEH means DOUBLE (DOUBLE Food supply)
EXAMPLE 3: Dt15-18a MISHNEH means DOUBLE (DOUBLE work time)
EXAMPLE 4: Dt17-18b MISHNEH means DOUBLE (DOUBLE Bibles)
OVERVIEW
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This is a simple Rashi. Rashi explains that the Hebrew word
MISHNEH means DOUBLE. So we simply spot check a few verses
and Rashis where the Hebrew word MISHNEH occurs and indeed does
mean double.
In a future issue we will discuss another meaning of
MISHNEH; it can also mean SOMETHING PRECIOUS. But in this issue
we concentrate on the obvious which will then form a background
for future discussion and other meanings.
Here is the LIST
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| VERSE |
WHAT WAS DOUBLE |
| Gn43-12a |
Double PAYMENT to return the last lost payment*1 |
| Ex16-05a |
Double FOOD Supply(since no Manna came down on Sabbath*2 |
| Dt15-18a |
Slaves WORK by day & night;(Workers only work 1 shift)*3 |
| Dt17-18b |
Two TORAHS; one for Kings house; one carried by him*4 |
| Isa61-07 |
You were EMBARASSED double;now you-ll INHERIT double*5 |
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COMMENTS |
*1 Recall that by accident Jacobs children had their payment
for food returned in their food sacks. So their father
suggested they carry a double payment for their next purchase
and return the original payment
*2 2 portions of Manna came down on Friday and no portions came
down on Shabbath. Hence the extra Friday portion was for
the Shabbath.
*3 A Master could force a slave serving a prison sentence for
theft to live with a non-jewish female slave; the offspring
of that marriage had slave status and were owned by the
original owner. Thus the slave worked by DAY (when he did
work) and ALSO by NIGHT (When he lived with a non jewish
slave and produced children). Under Jewish law Jewish
WORKERS were protected from 2 shift jobs
*4 Every Jew must write a Sefer Torah. But the King had to
write 2 sefers--one for his house; the other was carried
on him so that he could always read it.
*5 I completed this list with a verse from Isiah with the
word DOUBLE (MISHNEH) repeated TWICE (Forgive the pun!)
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