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The beginning of our psalm includes King David\u2019s cry of despair to God: \u201c\u2026How long will You hide Your face from me?\u201d (<\/span>13:2<\/span><\/a>), but ends with the Psalmist\u2019s declaration of faith: \u201cBut I trust in Your faithfulness (<\/span>13:6<\/span><\/a>). The idea that God sometimes conceals Himself from man (<\/span>hester panim<\/span><\/em>) is found in<\/span> Deuteronomy 31:17-18<\/span><\/a> and elsewhere in Scripture (see for example<\/span> Psalms 27:9<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Isaiah 45:15<\/span><\/a>). Discussion of this problematic issue continues in post-Biblical literature to post-Holocaust theology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Trust (<\/span>Bittachon<\/span><\/em>) in God is also a major theme in Jewish thought from Biblical to modern times. Significantly, King David\u2019s expression of faith in God\u2019s <\/span>chesed<\/span><\/em> (\u201cfaithfulness, loving-kindness\u201d) at the end of our psalm is incorporated in Jewish prayer, including in the <\/span>Hakafot<\/em> <\/span>on <\/span>Simhat Torah<\/span><\/em> according to <\/span>Nusach Sfard<\/span><\/em> (<\/span>Psalms 13:6 in Liturgy<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Midrash Ecclesiastes Rabbah 7:4<\/span><\/a> employs our verse to emphasize the importance of <\/span>gemilut chasadim<\/span><\/em>. This entails a highly creative rereading of David\u2019s declaration of faith. For David declared: I faithfully behave with kindness to all, as You [God] have behaved with kindness to me (Psalms 13:6). So, King David behaved with kindness (<\/span>gomel chesed<\/span><\/em>) to all people as he would to righteous people. The third Lubavitch Rebbe, the Tzemach Tzedek, in his commentary to our Psalm (<\/span>Yahel Or 13<\/span><\/a>) adds that David behaved with humility even toward the poor because, though a mighty king, he also had the quality of meekness (on <\/span>gomel dalim<\/span><\/em> \u2013 \u201cshowing kindness to the poor, see<\/span> Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 104a<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Midrash Tehillim 14:7<\/span><\/a> depicts God saying to David, With what boldness you speak of <\/span>chesed<\/span><\/em>! David replied, I am confident of Your <\/span>chesed<\/span><\/em>, as I have proclaimed: \u201cBut I trust in Your faithfulness (<\/span>chasdekha<\/span><\/em>)!…My heart will exult in Your deliverance\u201d (<\/span>13:6<\/span><\/a>).\u00a0 Rabbi Abbahu commented that this is one of those difficult Scriptural phrases in which God\u2019s deliverance is also Israel\u2019s deliverance. For though it is David who is speaking, he refers not to exulting in his own deliverance but in \u201cYour [God\u2019s] deliverance\u201d. In effect, David is saying, \u2018Your deliverance is our deliverance\u2026\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Israel, \u2018Render unto Me what I have given you in this World and I will repay you in the World to Come\u2026Dwell in <\/span>Sukkot<\/span><\/em> for seven days each year (see<\/span> Leviticus 23:42<\/span><\/a>) and I will repay you in the World to Come:\u2019 \u201cThe Lord will create over the foundation of Mount Zion and over meeting places cloud by day and smoke with a glow of flaming fire by night. Indeed, over all the glory shall hang a canopy, which shall serve as a <\/span>Sukkah<\/span><\/em> for shade from heat by day and as a shelter for protection against drenching rain\u201d (<\/span>Isaiah 4:5-6<\/span><\/a>). For this reason, David proclaims: \u201cI will sing to the Lord, for He has been good to me\u201d (<\/span>Psalms 13:6<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

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