To the conductor on the music for David, God has heard my voice, I will sing to you from the ends of the earth, I will call to you with my heart wrapped around me (Psalms 61:1-3). May our Rabbi teach us what a man from Israel is who is permitted to recite the blessing over the cup when it is not removed. Rabbi Acha, in the name of Rabbi Yochanan, a cup of blessing from his commandment, may it be removed and may it be crowned and may it be full of the number of people. And to Naphtali, he said, "Satisfied and full of the blessing of the Lord" (Deuteronomy 33:23). These three blessings must be in the cup of blessing, they said, in the name of Rabbi Yochanan, and his eyes must be in the cup, and he must be in his right hand, and his hand must be from the tabla, and he must recite the blessing with fear and not lightly. Rabbi Abba, in the name of Rabbi Hiyya, and Rabbi Hiyya, in the name of Rabbi Yochanan, standing and eating, sitting and blessing, sitting and eating, from a sib, and blessing from a sib, wrapping himself up and blessing, what is wrapping himself up? If his arm were exposed, covering it and blessing so that he could perform the commandment with fear, you would not have been careful in the commandments and fearing God like David, as he says. I am a friend to all who fear you, etc. (Psalms 119:64) And you should know that even though our rabbis taught that a person coming from a journey is exempt from prayer, and so if there was a place of danger on the way, but David would not do so, but even when he was walking, he would not prevent himself from praying, according to what they called in the matter: To the conductor on the musical instruments, David, I have heard, O God, I have sung from the end of the earth to you: To the conductor on the musical instruments, David, I have sung thus: The Rabbi opened, "Have mercy on me, Rabbi, my lips are singing, for I will sing to you and my soul, which you have redeemed" (Ibid. 21:23). You find that there is not a single limb or organ in you that is not kilosed to the Holy One, blessed be He, in whom kilosed is on his head, and they all say as one, and he repeats and elaborates (kilosed) on his head, you have anointed my head with oil (Ibid. 23:5). My eyes are kilosed continually to the Lord (Ibid. 25:15). To you I have lifted up my eyes (Ibid. 223:1). They kilosed with their mouth the praises of the Lord. My mouth will speak (Isa. 145:21). They have made my tongue and tongue sing of your righteousness (Isa. 35:28). They have made my lips sing of your righteousness (Isa. 11:23). And they have made my throat sing of your righteousness (Isa. 69:4). They have made my heart sing of my heart and my flesh sing of the living God (Isa. 44:3). They have made my heart sing of your righteousness in battle, and all my inward parts sing of your holy name (Isa. 103:1). They have made my hands sing of your hands teaching me to fight (Isa. 144:1). They have made my feet sing of your feet standing on a level ground (Isa. 26:12). Finally, all my bones will say, O Lord, who is like you? (Isa. 35:10). David said, "Even though I have made all these things until now, I do not know how to make my mouth sing of your righteousness, for I do not know how to make it sound like my mouth has written, "Your righteousness will be spoken of, for I do not know how to count it." All my bones will say, O Lord, who is like you, who saves the poor and strengthens him?" (Isa. 35:10). If only Israel were to enter In the hands of God and the Holy One, blessed be He, they are saved, and there is no poor man except Israel, as it is said, "And I have left in your midst a poor and needy people, and they will take refuge in the name of the Lord" (Zephaniah 3:12). David said, "A lamb among seventy wolves, what can Israel do among seventy strong nations, what can they do if I were not standing by them at every hour and hour? O save the poor, strengthen him from him. If Israel: I.e., save the poor, strengthen him from him. This is the evil inclination. There is a robber from this. How many good inclinations will be exhausted until they find none. And for a short time the evil inclination comes and destroys them from him. There is no robber greater than this. O save the poor, strengthen him from him. The poor and needy from him. This is the evil inclination. The Holy One, blessed be He, said to David, "Ten people said the book, and they weighed me into it. And of all of them, the kilos was not said except to you." David said to him, "Because the kilos is beautiful, I weigh you." As it is said to the conductor on the musical instruments, what is on the musical instruments but eternity (He) [to him] who puts a weight in the mouths of the righteous to weigh it. Therefore it is written: To the conductor on the music, Rav said, "We thank you for thanking you: Another thing for the conductor [eternal] to the one whose eternity is his: Another thing for the conductor [eternal] to the one who gives eternity to his sons: Another thing for the conductor [eternal] to the one who seeks to be eternal, as it were: (1) To the conductor [eternal] to the one whose eternity is yours, the Lord is the power and the glory and the eternity and the majesty (Deut. 29:11) and so the Lord is a man of war (Exodus 15:3) and so the Lord went out and fought (Zechariah 14:3) and so the Lord went out as a mighty man (Isaiah 42:13): To the conductor [eternal] to the one who makes eternity for his sons, he made wars with the Amorites as he wrote, and he was a scorner before the children of Israel, and the Lord threw great stones at them, etc. (Joshua 10:11): To the conductor [eternal] to the one who seeks to be eternal, as he wrote, "I will not always contend, nor will I always be angry" (Isaiah 57:16) Do not call it that, but rather to the conductor, "I will contend." Why did the Blessed One say, "When I I am defeated, I lose, and when I am defeated, I am intoxicated. I defeated the generation of the flood. It was not I who lost, for I destroyed my world, as it is said, and wiped out the entire universe (Genesis 7:23). Likewise, the generation of the flood (and the generation of the great one) and the Sodomites (and you say with this opinion of Ma'alan). But in the days of Moses, who was defeated, I did reward by not consuming Israel. Woe to the victor who seeks to be victorious: I.e., to the conductor on the musical instruments, God heard [his] voice, I prayed, said to him, O Lord of the universe, how long will your children be enslaved, and you do not hear? I prayed, and a new island is before you. Not in Egypt did we cry out to you, and you afflicted us, as it is written, and the children of Israel groaned from their bondage and cried out (Exodus 2:23). [And it is written, and I heard their cry (Ibid. 3:7), and so on about the sea.] And until they stood up to pray, [he said] to them, "Why are you crying out? I have already heard your prayer." As it is written, "And the Lord said to Moses, "Why are you crying out to me?" 15) And so in the days of Amalek they called upon the place and immediately He answered them, as it is written, and Israel vowed a vow, saying, "If we are given [and] given, and the Lord heard the voice of Israel" (Numbers 21:23). And so in the days of Samuel, when the Philistines came upon us, we called upon you, and you answered us, as it is written, and Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him (1 Samuel 7:9). And so in the days of Solomon, when we prayed before you, you immediately answered him with fire, as it is written, and it came to pass, when Solomon finished praying (1 Malachim 8:54), David said to him, "Lord of the universe, when your sons were in the Temple, they would call upon you, and you answer them now, since we are scattered in exile, you answer us, as it is written, "From the end of the earth will I call upon you, Lord of the universe, build your house, and we will dwell within it." From the end of the earth will I call upon you, what is written after it, a coin in your tabernacle forever" (ibid.):
Pesikta Rabbati 9
Curated by The Jewish Mythology Team
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