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Why does the Torah use the double expression "Keidmah Mizrachah"?

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Rashi: The Pasuk means to the front of the world 1 which is in the east, because the east is always called 'the front' and the west, 'the back'. Hence south is on the right, and north, on the left.

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See Sifsei Chachamim.

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