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Se`adyah Gaon (882-942), in the introduction to his commentary on Psalms, submitted that David was the sole author of Psalms, that allusions to what appear to be future events (e.g., \u201cBy the rivers of Babylon\u201d) were composed by him prophetically, and that names other than his that appear in its superscriptions belong to Levites (the Korahites, Asaf, Heiman, Yedutun, even Moses) to whom David submitted his poems to be set to music and sung. Accordingly, the cryptic notations that accompany many of the psalms (<\/span>selah, almut, neginot<\/span><\/em>) are either choral instructions or names of musical instruments that would accompany them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A <\/span>sh\u2019minit<\/span><\/em>, arguably, would be either an eight-toned melody or an eight-stringed instrument.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, the Talmud reports: (Arakhin 13b)<\/span><\/p>\n

Rabbi Yehudah said: The harp in the Temple had seven strings, as in: \u201cA fullness (<\/span>sova<\/span><\/em>`<\/em>) of happiness before You\u201d (16:11). Read it as seven (<\/span>sheva<\/span><\/em>`<\/em>) rather than fullness. That of the Messianic era will have eight, as in: \u201cTo the leader, on a <\/span>sh\u2019minit<\/span><\/em>\u201d (12:1), meaning the eighth string. That of the World to Come will have ten, as in: \u201cUpon the ten-stringed instrument (`<\/span>asor<\/span><\/em>) and lyre and singing to [the accompaniment of] a harp\u201d (92:4), and \u201cPraise the Lord with harp, and with a ten-stringed lyre sing to Him\u201d (33:2).<\/span><\/p>\n

Psalm 6 is familiar to those whose daily prayer rituals include <\/span>tachanun<\/span><\/em>, the quintessential supplication. Since it is recited (almost) daily, it behooves us to illuminate one of its more opaque verses: `<\/em><\/span>asheshah mi-ka`as `eini, `atekah be-khol tzorerai<\/span><\/em> (8), translated as: \u201cMy eyes are wasted by vexation, worn out because of all my foes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

`<\/span>Ash<\/span><\/em> is a moth (see Isaiah 50:9), so, presumably, the verb <\/span>`-Sh-Sh<\/span><\/i> literally means moth-eaten and, figuratively, worn out, paralleling `<\/em><\/span>atekah<\/span><\/em>, from `<\/span>atik<\/span><\/em> meaning old or ancient. 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