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What is "l'Midas ha'Melech"?
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Rashi: [We borrowed, and mortgaged 1 ] our fields and vineyards in order to pay the king's tax. Now we have nothing to finance ourselves! Midas is a tax, like "Mindah Velo va'Halach" (Ezra 4:13).
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Malbim: "Orechim" in the previous verse applies also here [even though there it is present tense, and here it is past tense! - PF] Now we discuss people screaming [also] about the past.
