<div>
<div class="userEdit" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;">
<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;"> In a message dated 11/25/2019 8:19:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, mesorah@lists.aishdas.org writes:</span></span>
<div><br></div>
<div class="quotedReply">
<blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: blue 2px solid;">
<div class="yiv9421561498" style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;"><span class="yiv9421561498" style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span class="yiv9421561498" style="font-family: Lucida Grande;"><span class="yiv9421561498" style="font-size: 14px;">"Lechol Baei Sha’ar iro" is transated to “those who entered the gate of his town”.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv9421561498">
<div class="yiv9421561498"><span class="yiv9421561498" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Lucida Grande;"><br></span></div>
<div class="yiv9421561498"><span class="yiv9421561498" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Lucida Grande;">In Parashat VaYishlach it says: “kol yotzei sha’ar iro”. Will the translation there be “all those who left out the gate of his town”?</span></div>
<div class="yiv9421561498" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="yiv9421561498" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Lucida Grande;">Seems to me that this is an idiom, that means “the <span class="yiv9421561498" style="background-color: #ffffff;">inhabitants of his town”.</span></span></div>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<div><br></div>
<div> >>>>></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;">The inhabitants of a town would be yoshvei ha'ir. A town with a gate is obviously a town large enough to be walled, not just a little village. People who come in and go out are not only the people who live in the town but also people from the surrounding areas who come for the market, for the court or whatever else people do in town. Rashi on the words "_all_ those who come to the gate" comments that everyone, obviously including farmers from outside the walls, left their work and came to pay their last respects to Sarah.</span></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;">Why are the people of Shechem (in the story of Dinah) referred to as "those who go out of the gate" while in Chayei Sarah the people of Chevron are called "those who come in the gate"? That I do not know, but I can speculate that people come in early in the day and go out late in the day. Sarah's funeral would have been early in the day while the people of Shechem being persuaded to have themselves circumcised would have been at the end of the day. It probably took a lot of persuasion.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;"><br></span></div>
</div>
<div class="aoldesktop_signature">
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></div>
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">--Toby Katz</span></strong></span></div>
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="mailto:t613k@aol.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">t613k@aol.com</a></span></strong></span></div>
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></div>
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">=============</span></strong></span></div>
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #ffffff;"><br></div>
<div style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">______________________________</span></strong></span></div>
</div>
</div>