[Avodah] Gishmaychem

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In the beginning of Parasha  Behuchosai (26:4): "V'natati gishmaychem 
b'itam..." 

What does it mean to  say "YOUR rain"? We can't find anyone who comments on 
this, nor any other  use of "gishmaychem" anywhere in Tanach. 

Thoughts? 

 
>>>>>
 
Rashi comments there on the word "be'itam": the rain will fall at times  
when people don't generally go out, like Friday nights.
 
In a footnote to the Silbermann Chumash  R' A. M. Silbermann  writes:"The 
word gishmaychem, 'your rain,' already implies that it shall fall at  the 
time when you require it, i.e., at the proper agricultural seasons;  'be'itam' 
is therefore taken to suggest a further blessing--that the rain shall  fall 
also at times when you will not be inconvenienced by it."
 
So "YOUR rain" means rain that falls when you need it, in the right  season.
"Be'itam" means at convenient times.
 
 
 



--Toby Katz
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