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J.S. Bach, introduction, cantata BWV 2, Nr. 1 Coro, \u201cAch Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein\u201d (\"Oh God, from heaven see it\").<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Most of Bach\u2019s cantatas were written in his Leipzig period (1723 and following), where Bach was the cantor (musical director and teacher) in the Church of St. Thomas there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Bach composed several cantata cycles that encompassed the Christian year, one cantata for each week. The composition here is part of such a cycle, and it belongs to the genre of cantatas based on well-known prayer melodies, the chorale. The melody is adapted in various ways, though the calculated complexity of the music is not readily felt in its emotional depth and power, which also don\u2019t reveal the personal and professional troubles that dogged the life of the composer during this period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The text is a paraphrase of Psalm 12 which was written in the days of Martin Luther, and the music upon which the composition is based, was composed by Luther himself. The creation expresses the psalmist\u2019s ire and the frustration at the sin and unbelief that surround him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Bach cantata may surprise the listener in that its structure is opposite to the usual classical narrative. It begins with the most sophisticated variation on the melody, and only at the end does it \u201creveal\u201d the simple tune that stands behind this complexity. But the music of prayer was well known to the listener\u2019s in Bach\u2019s day, who would have recognized it from the outset.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The cantata was written for five independent parts - the four voices of the choir, and an accompanying bass. Each verse begins with an \u2018argument\u2019 between three of the choral voices on the melody and on the text, and ends with the voice of the alto which sings in long and self-assured tones Luther\u2019s simple melody.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This structure repeats itself for each verse. The bass leads the chapter at a dizzying speed, and also participates in the imitations between the voices, and as in a jazz improvisation, leaves the listener amazed at the wealth of invention, all based on one simple tune. The entire text is based on verse 2 of the psalm: \u201cHelp, O LORD! For the faithful are no more; the loyal have vanished from among men.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-0YLRovPF6A","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"The Psalms In Classical Music","tile_main_caption":"Psalms in Five Voices","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"A new series - this time: J. S. Bach","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-0YLRovPF6A&feature=youtu.be","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Writings","book":"Psalms","chapter":"12","chapter_main_number":"579","date":"20271117","wall_id":"579"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":3,"id":"80185","color":"#f6f5de","size":"1","name":"Psalmsongs 12 ","post_title":"Psalmsongs 12","slug":"psalmsongs-12","old_id":"80185","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":80010,"post_title":"Gaya Aranoff Bernstein","slug":"gaya-aranoff-bernstein","old_id":"80010","first_name":"Gaya Aranoff ","last_name":"Bernstein ","description":"Gaya (Aranoff, M.D.) Bernstein has been a student of Rav Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz for many years. With his encouragement, she published Psalmsongs, A Gathering of Psalms (An Arthur Kurzweil Book, New York\/Jerusalem, 2013), and translated The Steinsaltz Tehillim, Commentary by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz (Koren Publishers Jerusalem Ltd, 2018). She is a professor of pediatric endocrinology on the faculty of Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City.\r\n\r\n","short_description":"Gaya Aranoff Bernstein is the author of Psalmsongs: A Gathering of Psalms.","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":80011,"alt":"","title":"gaya bernstein","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gaya-bernstein.jpg","width":332,"height":492,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gaya-bernstein-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gaya-bernstein-202x300.jpg","medium-width":202,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gaya-bernstein.jpg","medium_large-width":332,"medium_large-height":492,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gaya-bernstein.jpg","large-width":332,"large-height":492,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gaya-bernstein.jpg","1536x1536-width":332,"1536x1536-height":492,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gaya-bernstein.jpg","2048x2048-width":332,"2048x2048-height":492,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gaya-bernstein.jpg","post_full_size-width":332,"post_full_size-height":492,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/gaya-bernstein-283x420.jpg","home_baner-width":283,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"579","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

Help me God<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I\u2019ve lost my faith<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>in man<\/span><\/p>\r\n

smoothtalkers<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>spouting lies<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>doublespeak<\/span><\/p>\r\n

bloated by<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>false pride<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>convinced<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>they\u2019re their own<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>masters<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>convinced<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>they\u2019re ours<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Master<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>of the universe<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>by Your word<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Creator<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>of the universe<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Speak for the weary<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>the speechless<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>the humbled<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>the muted by<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>life<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Your works are Your words<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>visible in sterling purity<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>to those not blinded<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>by their own hot air<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>engulfed in fog<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Excerpted from: Gaya Aranoff Bernstein, <\/span>Psalmsongs: A Gathering of Psalms<\/span><\/em>, (An Arthur Kurzweil Book, New York\/Jerusalem, 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In Psalm 12, the Psalmist prays for salvation from the situation where he cannot find reliable people:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cHelp, O LORD! For the faithful are no more; the loyal have vanished from among men.\u201d (Psalm 12:2)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The translation that the \u201cfaithful are no more\u201d is not very literal. Another translation, \u201cthe devoted one has ceased\u201d captures better the Hebrew sentence structure \u2013 <\/span>ki gamar chassid<\/span><\/em>. The word <\/span>gamar<\/span><\/em>\u00a0in this verse means \u201cceased,\u201d and by extension can mean \u201cwas destroyed\u201d or \u201cis no more.\u201d This negative connotation is found in other Biblical uses of <\/span>gamar<\/span><\/em>, including Psalms 7:10 and 77:9.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, after the biblical period, <\/span>gamar<\/span><\/em>\u00a0has a more positive meaning. Instead of referring to the cessation of something, it could indicate bringing something to its desirable completion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is how it used in the rabbinic collection of ethics, Pirkei Avot: \u201cIt is not your duty to finish <\/span>ligmor<\/span><\/em>\u00a0the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it\u201d (Avot 2:16)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The sense of \u201ccompletion\u201d gives us the phrases <\/span>legamrei<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>- \u201ccompletely\u201d and <\/span>v\u2019gomer<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u2013 \u201cthe conclusion (of a verse).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From conclusion in general, <\/span>gamar<\/span><\/em>\u00a0came to mean complete understanding \u2013 that is, \u201cto learn.\u201d This is the source of the word <\/span>gemara<\/span><\/em>. It literally means \u201cstudy,\u201d and it composes the results of the discussions of the rabbis who were studying the earlier rabbinic text, the mishna. Talmud, which contains both the mishna and gemara, also means \u201clearning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We recently celebrated Yom Kippur, and the customary blessing for that holy day is <\/span>gmar chatima tova<\/span><\/em>. <\/span>Chatima<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>means \u201csealing,\u201d so the phrase can be understood as \u201cmay the completion of your sealing be for good.\u201d This image derives from a metaphor of God inscribing our fate in the Book of Life on Rosh HaShanah, and then sealing the book on Yom Kippur.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One way or another, every year comes to an end. Sometimes a bad year will be over, and we are relieved that it finally ceased. Other years bring the satisfaction of bringing projects to completion. And often we don\u2019t succeed in finishing everything we started. But every ending is also a new beginning. So <\/span>gmar chatima tova<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0- and may God help us in the year to come!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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As already noted<\/span><\/a>, Se`adyah Gaon (882-942), in the introduction to his commentary on Psalms, stated that 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. A <\/span>sh\u2019minit<\/em> <\/span>(12:1)<\/span>, arguably, would be either an eight-toned melody, or an eight-stringed instrument.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The outstanding theme of this psalm is speech\u2014proper and inappropriate. In the view of the psalmist, piety has been lost and people are no longer trustworthy (2). They speak falsehoods to one another, smooth talkers flatter one another, and their words are often at odds with their innermost intentions (3). While they mistakenly believe that their power of speech can overcome all restraints (5), it produces the sighs and cries of the needy and oppressed (6). In contrast, he extols the virtues of God\u2019s speech, which he described as pure as silver that has been refined sevenfold (7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Inappropriate speech is often called <\/span>leshon hara<\/span><\/em>`; I would like to seize the opportunity presented by this psalm to provide an insight into its real meaning. Notice, first, that there is no gender correspondence between the two words. Whereas <\/span>lashon<\/span><\/em> is a feminine noun (cf. v.4), the adjective <\/span>ra<\/span><\/em>` is masculine. Indeed, the reason the first word is vocalized <\/span>leshon<\/span><\/em> (not <\/span>lashon<\/span><\/em>) is that it is a construct of two nouns (<\/span>semikhut<\/span><\/em>), signifying the tongue, or speech, of the evil one. I would submit that \u201cthe evil one\u201d here is Satan.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In fact, its converse is <\/span>leshon hakodesh<\/span><\/em>, usually understood as a euphemism for Hebrew. I would submit that this, too, is a misnomer. Here, too, there is no gender correspondence and here, too, the vocalization points to a construct: the tongue, or speech, of the holy one, who, I submit, is God Himself, who, in the typical Yemenite articulation of Hebrew is called <\/span>haKodesh barukh hu<\/span><\/em> (rather than <\/span>haKadosh<\/span><\/em>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To speak properly is <\/span>imitatio dei<\/span><\/i>; to speak improperly or impiously is diabolical.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Image: No lashon hara sign, Jerusalem \/ wikipedia<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":80523,"alt":"","title":"ps12-leshon hara","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-leshon-hara.jpg","width":800,"height":761,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-leshon-hara-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-leshon-hara-300x285.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":285,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-leshon-hara-768x731.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":731,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-leshon-hara.jpg","large-width":800,"large-height":761,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-leshon-hara.jpg","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":761,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-leshon-hara.jpg","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":761,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-leshon-hara.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":761,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-leshon-hara-442x420.jpg","home_baner-width":442,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Holy Speech Vs. 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Our psalm includes the verse: \u201cThe words of the Lord are pure words, silver purged in an earthen crucible, refined sevenfold\u201d<\/span> Psalms 12:7<\/span><\/a>. The middle phrase about silver, <\/span>kesef tzaruf ba-\u2018alil la-\u2018aretz<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>has proven an exegetical crux for commentators from ancient to modern times.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is primarily because the word <\/span>ba-\u2018alil<\/span><\/em> occurs only here in Hebrew Scripture. The Targum renders this Hebrew word as Aramaic <\/span>be-khura<\/span><\/em>\u2019<\/span><\/i> \u2013 \u201cin a furnace\u201d. This is followed by the 3<\/span>rd<\/span> century BCE Greek Septuagint and some other ancient translations. However, this approach is rejected by Rashi. Rashi considers the possibility that <\/span>ba-\u2018alil<\/span><\/em> may be related to <\/span>ma\u2019alah<\/span><\/em> \u2013 \u201csuperior\u201d, which would yield a translation of <\/span>ba-\u2018alil la-\u2018aretz<\/span><\/em> as \u201cwith the most superior kind of earth \u2013 <\/span>ba-meshubach she-ba-\u2018afar<\/span><\/em>. Rashi\u2019s preferred interpretation is that <\/span>ba-\u2018alil<\/em> <\/span>means <\/span>be-galui<\/span><\/em> \u2013 \u201cclearly\u201d, yielding an interpretation of the problematic Psalms phrase: \u201csilver purged clearly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This understanding of <\/span>ba-\u2018alil<\/span><\/em> is based on<\/span> Mishnah Rosh HaShanah 1:5<\/span><\/a> : \u201cWhether [the new moon of Tishre appearing as a crescent moon at the beginning of a New Year] was seen clearly or was not seen clearly [by witnesses coming to Jerusalem to give testimony of their sighting of the New Moon], they profane Shabbat on account of it\u2026 <\/span>Talmud Bavli Rosh HaShanah 21b<\/span><\/a> adds that in the Mishnah, <\/span>ba-\u2018alil<\/span><\/em> indicates that the moon is clearly seen, on the basis of the expression in our verse, <\/span>ba-\u2018alil la-\u2018aretz<\/span><\/em>, which is now taken to mean \u201cin the clear sight of the earth\u201d.<\/span> Talmud Yerushalmi Rosh HaShanah 1:5 (8b)<\/span><\/a>, citing our verse in Psalms 12, states simply that the Mishnaic term <\/span>ba-\u2018alil<\/em> <\/span>means <\/span>mefursam<\/em> <\/span>\u201cwell-known\u201d.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n

Tosefta Sotah 9:1<\/span><\/a> and<\/span> Talmud Bavli Sotah 45a<\/span><\/a> employ the expression <\/span>ba-\u2018alil<\/em> <\/span>to refer to an unidentified corpse found \u201cclearly, evidently\u201d close to a city, raising the question of whether officials still need to measure the distances from the corpse to nearby towns according to<\/span> Deuteronomy 21:2<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Modern Hebrew, the Rabbinic meaning of <\/span>ba-\u2018alil<\/em> <\/span>to mean \u201cclearly, well-known, obviously, strictly\u201d) has come into common usage, as in the phrase: <\/span>bilti chuqi ba-\u2018alil<\/span><\/em> \u2013 \u201cclearly, or strictly illegal\u201d.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":80529,"alt":"","title":"ps12-smelt","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt.jpg","width":2906,"height":2704,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt-300x279.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":279,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt-768x715.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":715,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt-1024x953.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":953,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1429,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1906,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt-1200x1117.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1117,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt-451x420.jpg","home_baner-width":451,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Pure As Purged Silver","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"On a clear night...","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":80529,"alt":"","title":"ps12-smelt","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt.jpg","width":2906,"height":2704,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt-300x279.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":279,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt-768x715.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":715,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt-1024x953.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":953,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1429,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1906,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt-1200x1117.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1117,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-smelt-451x420.jpg","home_baner-width":451,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Writings","book":"Psalms","chapter":"12","chapter_main_number":"579","date":"20271117","wall_id":"579"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":7,"id":"80532","color":"#e0e9ef","size":"1","name":"The Power Of Speech ","post_title":"The Power Of Speech","slug":"the-power-of-speech","old_id":"80532","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":46656,"post_title":"Molly Morris","slug":"molly-morris","old_id":"46656","first_name":"Molly ","last_name":"Morris ","description":"Molly Morris holds a Masters degree in Leadership and Community Engagement. 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David cries out to God to save him because \u201cthe truthful people have vanished from mankind (12:2).\u201d He then goes on to detail what specifically he means by \u201cun-truthful\u201d people. They are the smooth-talkers and the outright liars. David is lamenting a generation of people who are misusing the gift of speech. This behaviour, according to David, is indicative of the morality of society in general.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch writes that a strong society is built on trust between its people, and that trust is predicated on believing each other. When people no longer believe what each other say, or if there is a disconnect between talk and action, then trust is lost, and society breaks down.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Language has played a key role in the pivotal moments of the emergence of the Jewish nation. God spoke to Moses at the burning bush. God spoke to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai and verbally transmitted the Ten Commandments. And God spoke continuously to the people through His prophets, who most often began their prophecies with \u201cThus said God\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In fact, the foundation of our very world is built on language. God created the world with words. On each day \u201cGod said\u201d let there be light\/a firmament\/waters\/luminaries\/living creatures\/man\/rest. And with each creation God used language to name day, night, earth, heaven, seas, and man. Immediately after creating the world God gave man the power to use language to name the animals, differentiating humankind from all other beings. The very core of our Jewishness is the promise God verbalized numerous times \u2013 that He would be our God and we would be His people.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the flip side, the misuse of language has been our downfall. Our expulsion from Eden was because of the twisting of God\u2019s words by the serpent and ultimately by Eve\u2019s willingness to buy into what she wanted to hear. Joseph spoke negatively about his brothers, and one thing led to another until ultimately the whole family landed up in Egypt and the Jewish nation was eventually enslaved. When freed from slavery, they spent 40 years wandering in the desert because of slander told by the spies about the promised land. And according to the Talmud (Gittin 55b-56a) the destruction of the Second Temple resulted from slanderous speech.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

David\u2019s plea to God demonstrates his appreciation of the holiness of language, and how its misuse is tantamount to the desecration of our relationship with God.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":80533,"alt":"","title":"ps12-hebrew lang","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang.jpg","width":1600,"height":1150,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang-300x216.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":216,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang-768x552.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":552,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang-1024x736.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":736,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1104,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang.jpg","2048x2048-width":1600,"2048x2048-height":1150,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang-1200x863.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":863,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang-584x420.jpg","home_baner-width":584,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"The Power Of Speech","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"And the holiness of language\u00a0","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":80533,"alt":"","title":"ps12-hebrew lang","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang.jpg","width":1600,"height":1150,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang-300x216.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":216,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang-768x552.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":552,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang-1024x736.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":736,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1104,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang.jpg","2048x2048-width":1600,"2048x2048-height":1150,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang-1200x863.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":863,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps12-hebrew-lang-584x420.jpg","home_baner-width":584,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Writings","book":"Psalms","chapter":"12","chapter_main_number":"579","date":"20271117","wall_id":"579"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":8,"id":"80491","color":"#faeed8","size":"1","name":"Joseph's Death ","post_title":"Joseph's Death","slug":"josephs-death","old_id":"80491","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":36669,"post_title":"Yakov Azriel","slug":"yakov-azriel","old_id":"36669","first_name":"Yakov ","last_name":"Azriel","description":"Yakov Azriel, who lives in Israel, has published five books of poetry in the USA and hundreds of poems in journals and magazines. 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\"Help, O Lord, for there are no more righteous; the faithful ones are gone among the children of men\" (Psalm 12:2).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How black it was, the night that Joseph died;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The sun revoked its dawn, the moon \u2014 its white, <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Eleven falling stars were lost from sight,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The flame of faith \u2014 extinguished and denied.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>How bleak it was that night, as brothers cried,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As famine left its lair again, to bite<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The land with hunger, crops with drought and blight,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Our throats with thirst, for springs of faith had dried.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The springs of faith are dry. A wolf will stalk<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The weary stragglers in the desert when<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>We search for sips of water in the night <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Of unbelief. And though we try to walk,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>We stumble, fall, then rise to fall again,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>As in the dark we beg, \"Let there be light!\"<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"929 Poetry Corner","tile_main_caption":"Joseph's Death","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"We stumble, fall, then rise to fall again","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Writings","book":"Psalms","chapter":"12","chapter_main_number":"579","date":"20271117","wall_id":"579"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":9,"id":"80438","color":"#e6f5f3","size":"1","name":"From Your Lips: Psalm 12 ","post_title":"From Your Lips: Psalm 12","slug":"from-your-lips-psalm-12","old_id":"80438","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":79754,"post_title":"Reuben Ebrahimoff","slug":"reuben-ebrahimoff","old_id":"79754","first_name":"Reuben ","last_name":"Ebrahimoff ","description":"Reuben Ebrahimoff is the author of a \"user's guide\" to the Book of Psalms, entitled \"From Your Lips to God\u2019s Ears, The 10 Things You Need To Know About the Book of Tehillim \u2013 Psalms.\" Affectionately known as \u201cThe Haftorahman,\u201d was the first Mashadi Jew from Persia to attend Yeshiva in the U.S.A. Over 2000 people read his weekly Haftorahman Handouts. He is President of Brilliant I.D.E.A.S. a jewelry manufacturing company, located in NYC. \r\n\r\n","short_description":"Reuben Ebrahimoff is the author of a \"user's guide\" to the Book of Psalms, entitled \"From Your Lips to God\u2019s Ears, The 10 Things You Need To Know About the Book of Tehillim \u2013 Psalms.\" ","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":79755,"alt":"","title":"reuben ebrahimoff","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/reuben-ebrahimoff.jpg","width":252,"height":242,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/reuben-ebrahimoff-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/reuben-ebrahimoff.jpg","medium-width":252,"medium-height":242,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/reuben-ebrahimoff.jpg","medium_large-width":252,"medium_large-height":242,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/reuben-ebrahimoff.jpg","large-width":252,"large-height":242,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/reuben-ebrahimoff.jpg","1536x1536-width":252,"1536x1536-height":242,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/reuben-ebrahimoff.jpg","2048x2048-width":252,"2048x2048-height":242,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/reuben-ebrahimoff.jpg","post_full_size-width":252,"post_full_size-height":242,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/reuben-ebrahimoff.jpg","home_baner-width":252,"home_baner-height":242}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"579","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Psalms: A Users Guide","post_main_content_content":"

Psalm 12:<\/p>\r\n

Author:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span><\/em>King David--the second king of Israel and father of the Davidic royal and messianic dynasty. David composed over seventy of the 150 psalms of Sefer Tehillim.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When and Why:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span><\/em>David wrote this psalm concerning the Israelites who betrayed him and revealed his location to Saul.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Genre:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span><\/em>Psalm of Individual Lament--This psalm was written from the perspective of the individual worshiper, who cries out to God in his time of need. It is characterized as an address to God involving a complaint, followed by a request and ending with an expression of trust.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter Summary:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span><\/em>King David protests the early death of the righteous, contrasting it with the longevity of those who speak with false and flattering lips. \u201cDeliver [us], Adonoy\u201d, he pleads on behalf of the downtrodden, \u201cfor the devoted man has ceased, for the faithful have disappeared from among the sons of man.\u201d
\r\n<\/span>This psalm consists of nine verses, subdivided into two equal parts of four verses each.
\r\n<\/span>Verse 1 serves as a heading.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In verse 2-5, King David describes the evil deeds of the wicked.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In verses 6-9, he describes the deeds of God. He beseeches that God should hear the sighs of the needy and bring them redemption, and wage war against such a vile generation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shimush Tehillim-When to Say<\/span>
\r\n<\/span><\/em>To be saved from bad advice--Verse 2 states: \u201cfor the devoted man has ceased.\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Verse 3 adds: \u201cFalsehood they speak one man with his neighbor.\u201d Verses 4 and 5 proclaim further \u201cMay God cut off all smooth lips, the tongue which speaks of great [haughty] things. Who have said, with our tongue we will prevail.\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To avoid sin--Verse 9 refers to the defeat of the wicked who surround the righteous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Talmud on Tehillim:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span><\/em>Verse 7: \u201cThe words of God are pure words, as purified silver, clearly visible [to all] on earth refined seven times.\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The Talmud, Rosh HaShana 21b, teaches that the word \u201calil\u201d--\u201dcrucible\u201d connotes both purity and clarity. It also deduces that forty-nine (\u201csevenfold\u201d-seven times seven) of the fifty \u201cgates of understanding\u201d were revealed to Moses exclusively. The final gate was revealed to all of Israel at Mount Sinai.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Excerpted from <\/span>From Your Lips To God\u2019s Ears<\/span><\/em>, by Reuben Ebrahimoff available on Amazon.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":79908,"alt":"","title":"psalms - rebrahimoff","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff.png","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff-300x300.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff-768x768.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff.png","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff.png","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff.png","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff.png","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff-420x420.png","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Psalms: A Users Guide","tile_main_caption":"From Your Lips: Psalm 12","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"A concise survey of the psalm's structure and content","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":79908,"alt":"","title":"psalms - rebrahimoff","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff.png","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff-300x300.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff-768x768.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff.png","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff.png","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff.png","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff.png","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalms-rebrahimoff-420x420.png","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Writings","book":"Psalms","chapter":"12","chapter_main_number":"579","date":"20271117","wall_id":"579"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":10,"id":"80436","color":"#f7e9e9","size":"1","name":"All Around Go The Wicked ","post_title":"All Around Go The Wicked","slug":"all-around-go-the-wicked","old_id":"80436","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":54356,"post_title":"Robert Alter","slug":"robert-alter","old_id":"54356","first_name":"Robert ","last_name":"Alter","description":"Robert Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. 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12:9 \u201cAll around go the wicked, they have dug deep pits for the sons of men.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This whole line, which reverts to the triumphalist wicked, looks tacked on, because the declaration of God\u2019s guarding the just in the previous line is a characteristic upbeat psalm ending. The dubiety of the line is reinforced by the first two words of the second verset, <\/span>kerum zulot<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> which makes no evident sense and can be understood only through an exegetical somersault (for example, the New Jewish Publication Society, \u201cwhen baseness is exalted\u201d). Some emendation seems necessary, and the present translation, conjecturally, presupposes that the final <\/span>mem<\/span><\/em> of <\/span>kerum<\/span><\/em> should be moved forward to begin the next word, thus yielding an intelligible <\/span>karu<\/span><\/em>, \u201cdug,\u201d a verb often associated in Psalms with the wicked. The object of the verb might then be <\/span>metsulot<\/span><\/em>, depths, or perhaps <\/span>metsudot<\/span><\/em>, traps, though if such a word once stood here, it has been lost in scribal transmission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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  1. How to speak<\/em>. The complaint in the psalm is not about improper deeds, but about speech that reflects culture. The first part of the psalm presents a picture of a culture of duplicitousness, base flattery, and self-importance, for \u201cBy our tongues we shall prevail; with lips such as ours, who can be our master?\u201d Likewise, in the second part, speech is power, and opposite lies there is the divine power if speaking the truth: \u201cThe words of the LORD are pure words, silver purged in an earthen crucible, refined sevenfold.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Words have power<\/em>. As noted, the psalm only describe speech, and not acts of evil, but still there are \u201cthe groans of the plundered poor and needy\u201d (verse 6), so it seems that the evil speech is working.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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