[Avodah] ra-ah bird

Eli Turkel eliturkel at gmail.com
Sun Jul 13 01:09:09 PDT 2008


<<which can be found in Yalqut Shim'oni 537 d'h' "v'es hachasidah"
(re the P'Shmini section on birds):
Tanna omedes kan b'Bavel v'ro'eh n'veilah b'eretz Yisrael."

I found on Shamash archives

* Ra'ah is explained as a far seeing bird (the root ra'ah means 'to see'):
'It stands in Babylon and sees a carcass in Eretz Israel.' The ra'ah views
things negatively and finds faults in others. This is like the housewife
who rebukes her cleaner that the dusting has not been done properly. The
cleaner suggests that the dust specks might be on the glasses of the
 housewife."  >>

There is no source in this quote

Does anyone know what is the complete medrash?

-- 
Eli Turkel



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