Rashi, on Neh 5:7

“And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and magistrates, and said to them: Do you every one exact usury of your brethren? And I gathered together a great assembly against them,”

“And I thought this over to myself Heb. וַיִמָלֵךְ לִבִּי עָלַי, and my heart took counsel within myself. and I contended I contended with the nobles and the prefects, who were the rich people. “Are you demanding each other’s loans?” Why are you doing this? You should have supported these poor people, but you are lending them money in order to appropriate their sons and daughters, their fields, vineyards and houses. and I gathered a large assembly around them I congregated and gathered a large assembly around them to shout at them in order to embarrass them.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.