This national lament follows a military setback, and it's unusually candid that the defeat felt like abandonment by God rather than just bad luck. 'Thou hast made the earth to tremble' treats the disaster as something God actively caused, not merely ...
Legal & Ethical<b>on shushan eduth, a michtam of David, to teach</b> (Addendum: Michtam is an expression of (Song 5: 11), “as finest gold (כתם פז),” a coveted thing. Our Sages, however, expounded this as referring to David, who behaved as a humble (מך) and innocent...
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