1)

Why do they ask their mothers, and not their fathers?

1.

Ibn Ezra: The mothers nurse them.

2)

Is this connected to the previous verse?

1.

Rav Sadya Gaon: Yes - verse 11 applies especially when infants ask their mothers for grain and wine 1 .


1

Do infants drink wine?! Perhaps this refers to grape juice. (PF)

3)

Did they literally faint in the street?

1.

R. Avigdor citing Eichah Rabah 2:16: Yes. A case occurred in which a woman sent her husband to buy food to sustain their family. He did not find food in the market; he quivered and died. She sent her older son to see what happened to her husband. He found him dead, and fainted and died 1 .


1

Eichah Rabah 2:16: Her infant wanted to nurse, but there was no milk - he quivered and died.

4)

What is "El Cheik Imosam"?

1.

Rav Sadya Gaon: It is b'Cheik Imosam (in their bosoms).

2.

Refer to 2:12:3:1*.

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