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text: Rashi on Psalms
  רש"י על תהילים
  Sefaria Community Translation
  
  
  Rashi on Psalms
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Verse 2
  
  "But desires the Torah of G-d" - sitting with scoffers leads one not to study the Torah.
  "And in his Torah we speaks" - at first it is called G-d's Torah, and once he works at it, it is called his Torah.
  "He studies" - Every expression of 'mediate' (he studies) refers to the heart; (Psalm 19) and the mediation of my heart; (Isaiah 33) Your heart shall mediate in fear; (Proverbs 24) For their heart thinks of plunder.
  
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  "His leaf will not decay" - even the least of it is useful. And discussion by the students of the wise is useful and worthy of study.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Tremble with fright. When trembling comes, as it is written here, (Isaiah 33) "the godless are seized with trembling" and they will be happy with service to the Lord.
  
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  Lest he be angry. Lest he be full of wrath
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Heedless in times of trouble- You hide Your eyes in times of trouble.
  
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  1. He hounds - he pursues as in "that you so hotly pursue me?" (Gen 31:36)
  2. They are caught in their schemes. The poor are caught up inthe schemes of the wicked.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Verse 1
  
  A stringed instrument with eight strings
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  In that which is said above "God is the fortress of my life."
  
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  "To be seen there every morning," so Dunash explained it, but his friend Menachem [explained the verse] using "yevaqer -- distinguish" (Leviticus 27) but Dunash used the word "boqer" morning.
  
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  The time of intercourse for their pleasure is intended; since they completed their pleasure, he turned his face to Y/you  and (s)he turn her/his his face to Y/you. ‎
  The Holy Blessed One ‎protected the drop and created the embryo. ‎
  
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  If I had not believed in the Holy One, blessed is He, those false witnesses would have already risen against me and destroyed me. The word "Lulei" has dots on it to expound that which our Rabbis expounded: I know that You give reward to righteous in the world to come, but I don't know if I have a portion with them or not.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  A song for the dedication of the Temple. That the Levites would say at the dedication of the Temple in Solomon's days.
  
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  You healed me. This is forgiveness of sin, as in Isaiah 6.
  
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  From descent into the pit. That I not descend to Gehinnom.
  
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  Sing to the Lord, you faithful ones. For what He has done for me, because you can trust in Him that He will be good to you; even if you are beset by sorrow, fear not.
  
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  ....The entire psalm is about Mordechai, Esther, and Haman, according to Midrash Pesikta Zutra: "When I was untroubled, I thought" is what Haman said. "To you, God, will I call" and so on up to "Be my help" is what Esther said, and "You turned my lament into dancing" is what Mordechai and all Israel said.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  All glorious is the king's daughter inside, etc.: Those that all the honor is dependent upon; and they are the groupings of the King that comported themselves with modesty. Now, their clothes are considered greater than the squares of (<i>mishbetsot</i>) gold of High Priests. <i>Mishbetsot</i> is <i>chatons</i> in [Old French]. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Return HaShem: From your furious anger (lit,: "burning of your nose").
  Show mercy: Think about the good aspects of your servant.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Nivrechah- this is the language of "and he caused the camels to kneel."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  I will awaken the morning. The manner of other kings is that the morning wakes them, while I awaken the morning, in that I rise at midnight, for the harp and lyre awaken me. As the sages said, "A harp was suspended above Davids bed. When midnight arrived a northern wind would blow across it and it would make music on its own.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  "Wonders from Your Torah :" Things that are hidden in it, which are not explicit in it.
  "Your Torah:" Wonders from the explanations of Your Torah, that are not explicit in it (I found [this]).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  "Song for ascent" - the literal meaning is that when the Levites started going up the stairs [in the temple] they would recite this song. It is not written in the beginning [of the book], but "there is no early and late" [in scripture, meaning things aren't always in chronological order].
  "Song for ascent" is a hint to the stairs the righteous will use in the afterlife to get from the tree of life to the throne [of G-d]. As it says in Sifri, "song OF ascent" isn't written here, but "song FOR ascent", for Him who will make ascent for the righteous.  *** There is more that I am unable to translate ****
  
  
  
  
  
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  "I was glad when told" - I heard people say that soon this old man [David] would die, and Solomon will reign, and the temple will be built, and we will go on pilgrimage, and I am happy.
  
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  "Our feet stood" - in war everywhere for your "gates Jerusalem" - because of the Torah studied there.
  
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  "Jerusalem that is built" - when my son Solomon will build the Temple inside it, Jerusalem will be built by having the divine presence, the temple, the ark of the covenant, and the altar.
  "Like a city put together" - like Shilo, the two are connected as it says (Deuteronomy 12) "for rest and inheritance". Rest is Shilo, inheritance is Jerusalem. Our Rabbis said that there is a built up Jerusalem in heaven, and one day the earthly Jerusalem will be like it.
  
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  "That there went tribes" - when the tribes of Israel got to Shilo after the exodus and put the ark of the covanent there. "Tribes of yud hey" - evidence for Israel. The nations said about them during the exodus that they were mamzerim [bastards], because if the Egyptians could enslave them, how much more so could they seduce or rape their wives. The holy one blessed be he [G-d] added His name to them, h-Reuven-i, h-Shimon-i, etc (Deuteronomy 26). He added His name to them, one letter at the beginning and another at the end, -yud -hey, to show they were pure.
  
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  "For there sat..." - the divine presence will be in Jerusalem, and there will be chairs for the judges of the nations as well as the chairs [thrones] of the house of David.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  From the Babylonian exile, we were like dreamers.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  "How good and how pleasant for brothers to sit together" - Israel are called brothers, and this is talking about when G-d "sits" in the temple with them.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  "Those who fear G-d" are the converts to Judaism (the answer I, Rashi, found)
  
  
  
  
  
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  "To He who made wonders on His own" - He made the sky, the earth, the sun, and the moon before He created the angels.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  In the recesses of the earth: In the lower heavenly dwelling that is in the bowels of my mother
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  There is none among Saul's servants who will stay his hand.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Chains