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What is "me'Eretz Mizrach ume'Eretz Mevo ha'Shamesh"?
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Radak: It is from east to west. Yisrael are scattered in all settled places!
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Malbim: The 10 tribes were exiled to the east, and Yehudah and Binyamin to the west. Not only will they not be exiled again - further, those cast off to the four corners of the world will return 1 .
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This dispels the third reason why Bayis Sheni was small in their eyes. (PF)
