... to swallow Jonah – this is the soul (naphsha). (Jon. 2:1) From its the spleen’s aspect: (Ex. 6:9) And they did not listen to Moses, from shortness of spirit... and from hard servitude – from the aspect of the liver (kaved), of which it is stated: (Ex. 7:14) The heart of Pharaoh is heavy (kaved), (Ex. 5:9) Let the work become ‘heavy’, from the aspect of the gall bladder (marah): (Ex. 1:14) And they embittered (mare-ru) their lives...
... a great fish (Jon. 2:1) is the ‘mixed multitude’ (’erev) rav, who are [Var. who is] the ‘captain’ (rav) ḥovel. Who is a destroyer∞ḥovel, if not the ‘leader’ (rav) of all the angels of destruction? He is ḥovel (destroyer), and she is female ḥabalah (destruction). The mixed multitude are the children of Lylyt the wicked, through whom Israel sinned, and ‘destroyed’ their flesh with the sign of covenant. They are ‘rav’∞multitudinous (argumentative) upon them in exile, and they are the female fish (dagah) for Israel, and because of this they said: (Num. 11:5)... we remember the fish (dagah)... etc.