1)

Who are the objects of Hashem's wrath in this Pasuk?

1.

Rashi: 'Hashem's wrath burned against you; it consumed your land and its produce and it set fire to Yerushalayim'. 1


1

Rashi: Which is established on the mountains, as the Pasuk writes in Tehilim, 125:2.

2)

What is the definition of Hashem's "Eish" that caused so much damage?

1.

Rashi: It is literally the fire of Hashem's anger.

2.

Targum Onkelos and Targum Yonasan: It is a fierce wind - like fire.

3)

What is the significance of the punishments in the Pasuk?

1.

Seforno: "Ki Eish Kadchah be'Api" is a parable referring to when Hashem chastised Yisrael so that they should do Teshuvah. 1 "Vatikad ad She'ol Tachtis" - they continued to sin 2 to the point that Hashem in His burning anger brought them down to the lowest depths; "Vatelahet Mosdei Harim" - and He removed all the leaders of the people. 3

2.

Ibn Ezra: "Ad She'ol Tachtis" - implies that the entire land [down to the depths] will be burned. 4

3.

Da'as Zekenim and Rosh: They imply that there is no place to escape Hashem's fire, not even in the depths or in tunnels under the mountains. 5

4.

Aderes Eliyahu #1: The Pasuk is hinting at four locations of punishment. "Ki Eish Kadchah be'Api" - in the heaven


1

Refer to 32:19:1:1.

2

Seforno: As the Pasuk writes in Divrei Hayamim 2, 28:22.

3

See Yeshayah, 3:1-3. See also Ba'al ha'Turim.

4

As the Torah wrote in Nitzavim, 29:22 in connection with S'dom.

5

Da'as Zekenim and Rosh: As in Iyov, 34:22. However, here the Pasuk says that one cannot escape punishment, and there, it says that one cannot hide one's evil from Hashem (PF).

6

The land stands on pillars, and the pillars on mountains. The Gemara states in Chagigah 12b: that the pillars stand on water - as the Pasuk writes in Tehilim 136:6 "Leroka ha'Aretz Al ha'Mayim"), and the water on mountains

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