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<p>Notice the relevance of Ben Zoma's definition of "ashir" to the 2nd half Rashi's definition of "evyon".</p>
<p>Also, recall that Rashi held of 1 and 2 letter shorashim. To him, there could well be a common shoresh of alef-veis, not meant as a derashah.</p>
<p>On 2016-09-07 1:50 pm, R Davidovich wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">Well, let's start with Rashi (15:4):
<div><span class="gmail-co_RashiTitle" style="font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-family: sbl_hebrew,'arial hebrew',arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;">אביון: </span><span class="gmail-co_RashiText" style="color: #000000; font-family: sbl_hebrew,'arial hebrew',arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;">דל מעני, ולשון אביון שהוא תאב לכל דבר:</span></div>
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<div><span class="gmail-co_RashiText" style="color: #000000; font-family: sbl_hebrew,'arial hebrew',arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: right;"><span class="gmail-co_RashiTitle" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">needy: </span><span class="gmail-co_RashiText" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Heb. אֶבְיוֹן, [denoting someone who is] poorer than an ע ָנִי. The term אֶבְיוֹן means"to yearn for" (תָּאֵב) , i.e., one who yearns for everything [because he has nothing]. — [Vayikra Rabbah 34:6, see B.M. 111b]</span></span></div>
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<p style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Tir'u baTov!<br /> -Micha</p>
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<td style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"> <em>"As long as the candle is still burning,</em></td>
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<td style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">micha@aishdas.org</td>
<td style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"> <em>it is still possible to accomplish and to</em></td>
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<td style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;"> <em>mend."</em></td>
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