{"id":85093,"date":"2020-12-20T17:52:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T15:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=85093"},"modified":"2020-12-20T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T15:55:08","slug":"david-takes-a-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/david-takes-a-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"David Takes a Memo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"85093","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"637","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Reminding himself - and God - of sufferings and salvations past\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our psalm begins with yet another esoteric superscription (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/636\/post\/85044\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">see the previous psalm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">): <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the leader. Of David. <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lehazkir<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (1). Since the verbal root <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Z-Kh-R<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">carries the sense of remembering, we may be tempted to render its use here as \u201ca memo.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, the history of its interpretation indicates that it is not that simple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Aramaic Targum, curiously, associated it with the Hebrew term for \u201ca token portion [of incense]\u201d called <em>\u2018<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">azkarah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, translating the verse: \u201cFor praise; composed by David, for remembrance; concerning the handful of incense.\u201d Rashi associated it with prayer, citing: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we call on (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nazkir<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) the name of the Lord our God\u201d (Ps. 20:8), and Rashbam commentary states: \u201cThis psalm was composed when [David] fled from Absalom. He would constantly cite it in order not to forget the misery it caused him,\u201d as though it were, indeed, a \u201cmemorandum,\u201d as we have suggested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malbim, however, called our attention to the fact that our psalm repeats\u2014nearly verbatim\u2014Psalm 40, and the beginning of the following psalm repeats that of Psalm 31, and added, by way of explanation:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This psalm, which includes chapters 70 and 71, was a prayer [David] recited when he fled from Absalom. It is clear from the language of the psalm that it was recited in his old age, recalling the wonders God performed for him in his youth and pleading that He does not abandon him in old age. Therefore, he combined here the end of Psalm 40, which speaks of a miracle done for him in his youth when he fled from Saul, as though to say that now, too, he is in need of such a miracle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, the meaning of <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lehazkir<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is to recall, now, earlier [events] to [implore God] not to forsake him. Then, he added three verses from Psalm 31, which he also recited when he fled from Saul to the wilderness, because now [in re Absalom], too, he was fleeing to the wilderness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robert Alter translated it as \u201cto call to mind,\u201d noting that <em>Z-Kh-R <\/em>also carries the sense of confession to a sin, as in \u201cMy offenses I recall (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mazkir<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) today\u201d (Gen. 41:9) and \u201cYou have come to me to recall (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lehazkir<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) my crime\u201d (1 Kings 17:18).<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":85095,"id":85095,"title":"ps70-memo push pins","filename":"ps70-memo-push-pins.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps70-memo-push-pins.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/david-takes-a-memo\/ps70-memo-push-pins\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ps70-memo-push-pins","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":85093,"date":"2020-12-20 15:53:57","modified":"2020-12-20 15:54:59","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1266,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps70-memo-push-pins-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps70-memo-push-pins-300x198.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":198,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps70-memo-push-pins-768x506.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":506,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps70-memo-push-pins-1024x675.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":675,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps70-memo-push-pins.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1013,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps70-memo-push-pins.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1266,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps70-memo-push-pins-1200x791.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":791,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ps70-memo-push-pins-637x420.jpg","home_baner-width":637,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"David Takes a Memo","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Reminding himself - 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