רַעַשׁ, preced.) commotion; earthquake. Ex. R. s. 29 מהיכן הר׳ נעשה for what cause does the earthquake come? Y. Ber. IX, 13ᶜ bot. אין ר׳ אלא וכ׳ raʿash (commotion) means a cessation of government, v. הֶפְסַק; Midr. Till. to Ps. CIV, 29; Midr. Till. to Ps. XVIII, 8 (corr. acc. to ed. Bub.). Tanḥ. P’kude 3 (ref. to I Kings XIX, 11) ואחר הרוח ר׳ … שדומה לר׳ שמרעיש וכ׳ ‘and after the wind an earthquake’, after this world comes the day of death, which is like an earthquake, for it shakes the whole body of man; a. e.