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1) [line 2] IRBUVISA - dirt
2) [line 3] AVIRA - blindness
3) [line 4] SHI'AMUMISA - dullness, bewilderment
4) [line 5] SHICHNEI - boils, sores
5) [line 5] KEIVEI - pains
6) [line 7] "YIZAL MAYIM MI'DALYAV..." - "He shall pour the water out of his buckets, [and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.]" (Bamidbar 24:7) - Water represents Torah (Sifri 32:2 and elsewhere). Our Gemara interprets the word "Dalyav" ("his buckets") as "his poor people," from the word "Dal," which means poor or needy. (EIN YAKOV)

7) [line 9] SHE'LO YOMERU, "TORAH -- YERUSHAH HI LAHEM" - (a) so that the sons of the Talmidei Chachamim do not say that the Torah is their inheritance, and as a result they do not put in the effort to learn it (TOSFOS, RAN); (b) so that the *common people* do not say that the Torah is only the inheritance of the Talmidei Chachamim, and as a result they do not learn it, convinced that they will not succeed (ROSH, 1st explanation)

8) [line 11] SHE'LO YISGADRU - so that they should not become conceited; so that they should not be presumptuous towards the people and lord over them

9) [line 12] MIPNEI SHE'HEN MISGABRIN - because they definitely would become conceited

10) [line 16] "MI HA'ISH HE'CHACHAM V'YAVEIN ES ZOS..." - "Who is the wise man, that may understand this? [And who is he to whom the mouth of HaSh-m has spoken, that he may declare it? Why does the land perish and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passes through?]" (Yirmeyahu 9:11)

11) [line 18] "VA'YOMER..." - "And HaSh-m said, 'Because they have forsaken My Torah [which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice, nor walked in it;']" (Yirmeyahu 9:12)

12) [line 1] AFAR PIR - the dirt of his den (something to which he is accustomed)
13) [line 9] LO EKCHOL - I will not paint my eyelids with a blue or tinted powder
14) [line 9] LO EFKOS - (a) I will not color my face red by applying mud or rouge to my face (RASHI Kesuvos 4b; see TOSFOS to Moed Katan 9b DH Pokeses and RASHI to Shabbos 64b DH v'Lo Sifkos); (b) I will not part my hair with a comb or my hands (RASHI to Mo'ed Katan 9b DH Pokeses); (c) I will not braid my hair (RASHI to Kesuvos 17a)

15) [last line] NETULAH ANI MIN HA'YEHUDIM - (lit. "I am removed from the Jewish people) I have made a vow prohibiting me from having relations with Jewish men (because relations are agonizing to me -- RASHI to Yevamos 112)

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