{"ref": "Rashi on II Kings 2:19-25", "heRef": "רש\"י על מלכים ב ב׳:י״ט-כ״ה", "isComplex": false, "text": [["<b>But the water is bad.</b> And because of the water, the land causes people to die, and send them to their graves. If so, what is the meaning of, “the city is a good place to live”?<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">18</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Above, at the beginning of this verse.</i> From here [we learn] that a place’s charm is perceived by its inhabitants.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">19</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Maseches Sotah 47a. Rabbi Yochonon said that there are three types of charm. 1. The charm a place that is perceived by its inhabitants. 2. The charm a woman holds for her husband. 3. The charm of a newly purchased item for its buyer.</i>"], [], ["<b>To the source of the water.</b> From where the water flowed.", "<b>And threw salt there.</b> Now is not salt a thing that spoils water? This was a miracle within a miracle.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">20</sup><i class=\"footnote\">This miracle was similar to the one performed by Moshe in Marah. After traveling through the wilderness for three days without water, the Bnei Yisroel finally came to a spring only to find the water undrinkably bitter. Moshe threw a tree whose wood was bitter into the water and the water became sweet and drinkable. See Shemos 15:22-26.—Radak</i>"], [], ["<b>Little boys.</b> Void of <i>mitzvos</i>.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">21</sup><i class=\"footnote\">The literal meaning of נְעָרִים קְטַנִּים is “small children,” but obviously this is not the true meaning, because Elisha would never have cursed small children. The word נְעָרִים can also be interpreted as נְעוּרִים [=shaken out or empty] from good deeds. The word קטנים [=little] alludes to how small their faith was. Nonetheless, Elisha was punished for treating them so harshly. See Maseches Sotah 47a. Radak Alternatively, the boys came from a town called נַעֲרָן, which is mentioned in I Divrei Hayomim 7:28 and in Yehoshua 16:7. See below, 5:2.</i>", "<b>“Go away, baldy!”</b> “Go away from here, for you have made the place bald for us, [i.e.,] for until now we would be hired to bring sweet water from a distance, and we would earn our livelihood thereby.” But when [the water] became sweet, they lost their livelihood. Thus it is explained in [Maseches] Sotah.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">22</sup><i class=\"footnote\">46b, and see Rashi there.</i>"], ["<b>And saw them.</b> He saw that neither in them nor in their descendants would there be any sap of good deed.<sup class=\"footnote-marker\">23</sup><i class=\"footnote\">See Shemos 2:12 and Rashi there.</i><sup class=\"footnote-marker\">24</sup><i class=\"footnote\">Some say that Elisha saw that their hair was cut in the style of the heathens. He believed that they were degenerate and depraved and foresaw that they would never return to the ways of the Torah. See Maseches Sotah 46b. </i>"]], "he": [["<b>וְהַמַּיִם רָעִים.</b> וּמֵחֲמַת הַמַּיִם הָאָרֶץ מְשַׁכֶּלֶת אֶת יוֹשְׁבֶיהָ לְקָבְרָם, אִם כֵּן מַהוּ: וּמוֹשַׁב הָעִיר טוֹב, מִכָּאן אָמְרוּ: חֵן מָקוֹם עַל יוֹשְׁבָיו."], [], ["<b>אֶל מוֹצָא הַמַּיִם.</b> שֶׁהָיוּ נוֹבְעִים מִשָּׁם.", "<b>וַיַּשְׁלֶךְ שָׁם מֶלַח.</b> וַהֲלֹא מֶלַח דָּבָר הַמְקַלְקֵל אֶת הַמַּיִם הוּא, אֶלָּא נֵס בְּתוֹךְ נֵס."], [], ["<b>וּנְעָרִים קְטַנִּים.</b> הַמְנֹעָרִין מִן הַמִּצְוֹת.", "<b>עֲלֵה קֵרֵחַ.</b> עֲלֵה מִכָּאן, שֶׁהִקְרַחְתָּ עָלֵינוּ אֶת הַמָּקוֹם, שֶׁעַד עַכְשָׁיו הָיִינוּ מִשְׂתַּכְּרִין לְהָבִיא מַיִם מְתוּקִים מֵרָחוֹק, וּמִתְפַּרְנְסִין בְּכָךְ, וּמִשֶּׁהִמְתִּיקוּ אִבְּדוּ פַּרְנָסָתָן, כָּךְ מְפֹרָשׁ בְּסוֹטָה."], ["<b>וַיִּרְאֵם.</b> רָאָה שֶׁאֵין בָּהֶם וְלֹא בְּזַרְעָם לַחְלוּחִית שֶל טוֹבָה."]], "spanning": true, "versions": [{"status": "locked", "priority": 3.0, "license": "CC-BY", "versionNotes": "", "formatAsPoetry": "", "digitizedBySefaria": "", "method": "", "heversionSource": "", 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