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- טָרַח(b. h.; cmp. טָרַד) to run about, be busy, to lake pains, prepare. Ab. Zar.3a מי שט׳וכ׳ he who has made preparations on Friday has food for the Sabbath (he who does good in this world can expect reward in the hereafter). Keth.10a; Kidd.45b חזקה אין … טוֹרֵחַוכ׳ the presumption is that one will not go to the trouble of preparing a (wedding) feast and let it go to ruin, i. e. one must have weighty reasons for a divorce immediately after marriage; Yeb.107a. Ber.58a, v. טוֹרַח; a. fr.Y.M. Kat. I, 80a bot. דבר שאינו ט׳, v. טָרֵיחַ. Hif. הטְרִיחַ 1) to put to trouble, put a task on. Taan.24a אתה הִטְרַחְתָּוכ׳ thou hast put thy Creator to the trouble of Snh.8a מַטְרִיחִין אותי they (the wicked) put me to Lev. R. s. 27 לא הִטְרַחְתִּי עליכם I did not tax you too heavily; a. fr. 2) to weary. Snh.22b; Erub.64b, a. e., v. טָרַד. 3) to trouble, beg persistently. Yalk. Ex. 244 ה׳ עליו he begged him instantly.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.