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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>From: shalomyitz@comcast.net<BR><BR><BR>In the beginning of Parasha
Behuchosai (26:4): "V'natati gishmaychem b'itam..." <BR><BR>What does it mean to
say "YOUR rain"? We can't find anyone who comments on <BR>this, nor any other
use of "gishmaychem" anywhere in Tanach. <BR><BR>Thoughts? </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Rashi comments there on the word "be'itam": the rain will fall at times
when people don't generally go out, like Friday nights.</DIV>
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<DIV>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."</DIV>
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<DIV>So "YOUR rain" means rain that falls when you need it, in the right
season.</DIV>
<DIV>"Be'itam" means at convenient times.</DIV>
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