Rashi, on Neh 5:9

“And I said to them: The thing you do is not good: why walk you not in the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the Gentiles our enemies?”

“The thing...is not good The thing is evil in the eyes of the Holy One, blessed be He. because of the reproach because of the reproach of the heathens who are our enemies.”

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.