1)

Why is a stork called "Chasidah"?

1.

Rashi: Because it performs acts of kindness with its friends.

2.

Moshav Zekenim, citing R. Eliezer of Garmaiza: It gives Ma'aser 1 from its children. This is why the angels (Chayos) are called byits name - "Kenaf Renanim? Chasidah" (Iyov 39:13).

3.

Pane'ach Raza: Targum Onkelos of "Chasidah" 'Chorisa', since it is common for Chasidim to turn white (after blushing) when people mock them for their Chasidus, and even so they do not refrain.


1

Seifer ha'Itur (Shechitah 45b): Some call it 'Gita', since it casts them off (like Get). Pane'ach Raza: That explains why in Devarim, it is placed just four Pesukim before "Aser Ta'aser" (Pasuk 14:18).

2)

Why is the heron called "Anafah"?

1.

Chulin, 63a: Because it becomes angry with its friends.

3)

What is a "Duchifas"?

1.

Rashi: it is a wild hen, whose comb is doubled ('Hodo Kafus'), which Onkelos translates as 'Nagar Tura' because it is capable of boring holes in rocks. 1


1

As the Gemara relates in Gitin, 68b. Others, citing Rashi, translate it as a hoopoe.

4)

Why is "ha'Anafah" written without a 'Vav' in front of it?

1.

Moshav Zekenim: Because when a stork (which is written before it) is Mezanah with its friends, it immediately Tovels in water lest its 'husband' smell [the semen]. If it does not do so, if the male smells it, he will act like an Anafah, which is irritable and Mezanah, and it flies and breaks [the female's] neck with a feather in its wings.

QUESTIONS ON RASHI

5)

Rashi writes that Chasidah does Chesed with its friends. If so, why is it among the Tamei birds?

1.

Mishneh Halachos (6:124, citing the Ba'al Shem Tov), Daf Al ha'Daf (Chulin 63a citing the Beis Yisrael): Midas ha'Chesed entails doing Chesed with everybody and not only with one's friends.

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