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Loneliness, depression: psalm 13 is about battling your own demons. About the bargaining that you do when you are in that pit of mental despair and existential anguish. About the voices in your head telling you that you are worthless, that you are incapable, that you are nothing. Those are the enemies and oppressors the psalm is referring to.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is written that people are created in the image of God, but when you are in that lonely, dark place, you can\u2019t see that face when you look in the mirror. You don\u2019t feel the essence of God within yourself. You see nothing. You feel nothing. You are obsessed with how others must see you, convinced they are cheering your demise. Convinced you are the center of their attention, that they are wishing for you to fail, hoping for you to die.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You pray for light. You pray for the ability to see yourself as the image of god again. You pray for the day you can be glad again, you pray for the day you will want to sing again. You say the words without believing them possible. You say the words because maybe that will change something. Maybe the uttering of the words are able to will them into being.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Maybe uttering the words will silence the voices in your head.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You pray for kindness. You pray to be seen. You pray for someone to see you for who you are. For what you are. For someone to accept you. And if someone does that act of kindness for you, and sees the image of God in you, the enemies and the oppressors you are battling would simply disappear and be forever vanquished.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\n

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Johannes Brahms - Psalms 13 for a women\u2019s chorus and organ (The girls' choir at Freiburg Minster \/ July 2008 )<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Johannes Brahms (1833-1896) was known mainly as a disciple of Beethoven with regard to symphonies and chamber music, but also as a composer of vocal works for choir, such as \u201cThe German Requiem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In his youth, he worked with choirs as a conductor, and among others he conducted a women\u2019s choir in Hamburg, the city of his youth, which he himself established in 1859. He composed this work for them, which is based on a translation of the verses of Psalms 13 to German.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He chose not to overly challenge the vocal parts, but the work nevertheless includes some interesting and complex tonal structures, such as the imitations, which symbolize the exultations of the enemies over the suffering of the psalmist.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The musical approach is traditional: dividing the chapter into its constituent verses, where each verse becomes a small musical unit in its own right, with the contrasts between the different characters of these units adding tension and interest in the work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After three exclamations to God, comes the cry \u201cHow long, O LORD; will You ignore me forever?\u201d that continues with variations. The cry \u201cRestore the luster to my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death\u201d is presented in a particularly dark mode, given to the low voices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From this low point, and after the voices of the enemies, the music changes its color, and becomes upbeat and positive for the last verse - which exchanges suffering for salvation. This single verse transforms the work into a long song of praise, equivalent in length and musical content to the five tortured verses that preceded it.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7EdAUBeEHW4","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":"From Suffering to Salvation, Chapter and Verse","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"A new series - this time: Johannes Brahms","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7EdAUBeEHW4","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":"13","chapter_main_number":"580","date":"20271118","wall_id":"580"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":5,"id":"80188","color":"#efefef","size":"1","name":"Psalmsongs 13 ","post_title":"Psalmsongs 13","slug":"psalmsongs-13","old_id":"80188","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":"580","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

O God<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I can\u2019t take this much longer<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>where are You<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>come out<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>come out<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>wherever You are<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I can\u2019t take this<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>much longer<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Help me<\/span><\/p>\r\n

how much longer<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>can I take this<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I can\u2019t plan<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I\u2019m running<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>on empty<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>bereft of ideas<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>my enemies swift<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I see death<\/span><\/p>\r\n

look at me<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>wherever You are<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>See me<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I\u2019m falling<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I can\u2019t take this<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>much longer<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>O show me a light<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>that my eyes can Mind<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>shine on me now<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>See me<\/span><\/p>\r\n

if I die<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>they\u2019ll think they won<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>they\u2019ll dance on my grave<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>if I live<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I\u2019ll sing and praise<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>my God<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>the only One<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Excerpted from: Gaya Aranoff Bernstein, <\/span>Psalmsongs: A Gathering of Psalms<\/span><\/em>, (An Arthur Kurzweil Book, New York\/Jerusalem, 2013)\u05e5<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":80037,"alt":"","title":"psalmsongs4","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4.jpg","width":2894,"height":1928,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4-1024x682.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":682,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1023,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1364,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4-1200x799.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":799,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"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":"929 Poetry Corner","tile_main_caption":"Psalmsongs 13","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"O God I can\u2019t take this much longer","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":80037,"alt":"","title":"psalmsongs4","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4.jpg","width":2894,"height":1928,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4-1024x682.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":682,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1023,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1364,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4-1200x799.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":799,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/psalmsongs4-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"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":"13","chapter_main_number":"580","date":"20271118","wall_id":"580"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":6,"id":"80729","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Reading Psalm 13 After the Holocaust ","post_title":"Reading Psalm 13 After the Holocaust","slug":"reading-psalm-13-after-the-holocaust","old_id":"80729","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":72765,"post_title":"George Daniel Frankel","slug":"george-daniel-frankel","old_id":"72765","first_name":"George Daniel","last_name":"Frankel","description":"Danny Frankel lives in New York City. 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Perhaps. Perhaps not.","post_main_content_content":"

Three of my grandparents were murdered in the Holocaust. (The fourth one had the good sense to die before the War).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I never met any of my grandparents but I have it on personal testimony that they were extremely pious (despite being German-Jewish).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I wonder if those grandparents who were murdered went to their deaths with the last verse of this chapter on their lips:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cBut as for me, in Your mercy do I trust;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> I will sing unto God,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> Because He has dealt kindly with me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This seems to me the key verse in David\u2019s life, indeed in all of Psalms. David, despite all his tribulations, led a charmed life. Whatever happened to him, he always came up singing. He knew that in the end God was on his side and would save him. Perhaps that is even why he had the audacity to sin with Bathsheba. This too would work out well, eventually. God could not resist David\u2019s charisma, had too much invested in a happy outcome for David to let him fail.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet for how many Jews throughout the generations has this verse been a delusion and a false hope? God did not prove merciful; God did not provide salvation in which to rejoice; God did not deal kindly. Those unfortunate Jews who \u201ctrusted in God\u2019s mercy\u201d were left with the questions with which our chapter began:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cHow long, O Lord, will You forget me forever?<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> How long will You hide Your face from me?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As if to anticipate our objections, David\u2014or some genius of a redactor\u2014begins the very next chapter, (after the superscription), with the words:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe <\/span>Naval<\/em> <\/span>has said in his heart: There is no God!\u201d (14:1)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Naval<\/em> <\/span>is usually translated as \u201cfool.\u201d But it is more likely related to the Hebrew word for \u201cwither.\u201d David is saying that only the withered leaf, only the individual who is <\/span>already<\/span><\/em> cut off from life, can imagine that there is no God. (And if the <\/span>naval<\/em> <\/span>made this statement not in his heart but out loud, in public, would he be any less of a <\/span>naval<\/span><\/em>?)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is something obfuscatory and disingenuous about this juxtaposition between faith at the end of Chapter 13 and doubt at the beginning of Chapter 14. David wants to force us into a binary proposition: either one believes in a merciful God or one doesn\u2019t believe in God at all and is a <\/span>naval<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

But isn\u2019t there another possibility: that God exists but is not, or is no longer, merciful? Or that He exists but is merciful to some and not to others?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How does all this factor into the decisions that each individual must make in the course of his or her life?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Is God merciful? Perhaps. Perhaps not.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But it is probably not a good idea to rely on His mercy in any particular instance. Too many have suffered and died who made that mistake.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s nothing here<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>That\u2019s not your fault, not bees\u2019<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Enslavement to nectar\u2019s labyrinths,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Not the cacophonous greens<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Shaking themselves out like tangled hair, not<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The sinking shiver of my blood<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Or the phantom footsteps of disease<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>That haunt my spinal column<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Searching for bits of self to seize<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The way you seize on bits of self<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>You somehow lost<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In me, not the terror<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Stirring my depths<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Like the sea monsters you created<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>When you were in the creation business,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Not the bombs<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Your children strap on<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To detonate in streets crowded<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With children you seem, in a flash,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To have forgotten. No, I can\u2019t <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Not blame you<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For a single second<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Of the light<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>That penetrates me non-consensually<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Dawn after dawn, impregnating <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>With hope, desire, need<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>A body that couldn\u2019t care less<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How far away you seem<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Even when you are oppressively close,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Stuffing my nostrils<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With blossoming breath,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Drowned hair dripping <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Over my breasts,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Dripping fragrance, dripping smoke,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Dripping your most<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Corrosive acid,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Possibility.\u00a0
\r\n
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Psalm 13, David is searching and unable to find God. He wonders for how long God will abandon him, leaving him desolate and unsuccessful.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

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This short psalm is written with a musical pattern surrounding the Hebrew letter \"nun.\"\u00a0 The Psalm opens with the repetition of the words <\/span>Ad Ana<\/span><\/em>, \"until when, how long.\" David asks God how long will God be hidden from him?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

David then takes the repetitive \"nun\" sound from the four-fold repetition of the Hebrew word Ana<\/em> in the first three verses, and first cries \u201canswer me,\u201d <\/span>aneini<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>and then refers to \u201cmy eyes,\u201d <\/span>einai<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>both of which have similar structures and strong \"nun\" sounds.\u00a0 Finally, David concludes with the Hebrew word for \u201cI,\u201d <\/span>Ani<\/span><\/em>, in the same pattern: \"I trust in your loving kindness\".<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In this brief chapter, the psalmist, whose enemies were harassing him and seeking to destroy him, feels that God is ignoring him and has turned His face away from him (2). The outstanding literary feature of this psalm is the fourfold repetition of \u201cHow long\u201d (`<\/span>ad \u2018anah<\/span><\/em>), an indication, perhaps, that unlike the evildoer in Chapter 10 who claimed that God \u201cturns away His face\u201d permanently (see our comments there), our \u201chero\u201d understands that it is just temporary.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Continuing, he made the following request: \u201cLook at me, answer me, O Lord, my God! Restore the luster to my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death\u201d (4). The exegetes were divided in the interpretation of this verse. Rashi, citing Jeremiah 51:39, commented: \u201cDeath is called sleep.\u201d Ibn Ezra, like our translation, treated the original (literally, \u201clest i sleep death\u201d) as an elliptical phrase: \u201cthe sleep of death.\u201d Radak took it figuratively to signify \u201cthe darkness and slumber of the exile and its distress.\u201d Malbim, too, interpreted it figuratively, saying: \u201cMy soul is asleep or ceasing from its spirituality until it will be cut off from its roots and I will die a spiritual death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Whether the sleep is spiritual or physical death, what is the luster whose application to the eyes might prevent it? The Aramaic Targum Yonatan rendered it as: \u201cIllumine my eyes by Your Torah,\u201d which rendition is justified by an examination of the connection between illumined eyes and joyful hearts described in Psalm 19:9: \u201cThe precepts of the Lord are just, <\/span>rejoicing the heart<\/span><\/em>; the instruction of the Lord is lucid, <\/span>making the eyes light up<\/span><\/em>.\u201d And just as lit up eyes indicate a joyful heart, despair is described by a psalmist as: \u201cI am all bent and bowed; I walk about in gloom all day long\u2026 My mind reels; my strength fails me; <\/span>my eyes too have lost their luster<\/span><\/em> (Ps. 38:7-11).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our psalmist is afraid that he is falling into a depression born of despondency from which he may never emerge, so he prays to God for the hope and optimism that will save him from despair\u2014and from his enemies.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":80738,"alt":"","title":"ps13-sleep death","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death.jpg","width":4387,"height":2839,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death-300x194.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":194,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death-768x497.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":497,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death-1024x663.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":663,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":994,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1325,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death-1200x777.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":777,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death-649x420.jpg","home_baner-width":649,"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":"Something To Make The Eyes Light Up","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"And to avoid sleeping the sleep of death","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":80738,"alt":"","title":"ps13-sleep death","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death.jpg","width":4387,"height":2839,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death-300x194.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":194,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death-768x497.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":497,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death-1024x663.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":663,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":994,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1325,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death-1200x777.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":777,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ps13-sleep-death-649x420.jpg","home_baner-width":649,"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":"13","chapter_main_number":"580","date":"20271118","wall_id":"580"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":10,"id":"80723","color":"#e6f5f3","size":"2","name":"Catastrophe ","post_title":"Catastrophe","slug":"catastrophe","old_id":"80723","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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\"How long, O Lord?\u00a0 Will You forget me forever?\u00a0 How long will You hide Your face from me?\"\u00a0 (13:2)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Do you recall the day the sun turned black,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Then vanished in the air? Do you recall<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The night you saw a thousand comets fall,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Each one a victim of the moon's attack<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Which caused the startled sky to quiver, crack<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And disappear? Do you recall the squall<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And crashing tidal waves that smashed the wall<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Your parents built to hold the ocean back?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Such minor, petty semi-tragedies <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Are easy to forget \u2014 unlike a true <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Catastrophe, which severs every bone<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And drains the life-blood from your arteries<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u2014 Like when it seems that God abandons you,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Conceals His face and leaves you all alone.<\/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":"Catastrophe","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"minor, petty semi-tragedies\u00a0 \/ Are easy to forget \u2014 unlike a true\u00a0 \/ Catastrophe","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":"13","chapter_main_number":"580","date":"20271118","wall_id":"580"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":11,"id":"80608","color":"#f7e9e9","size":"1","name":"From Your Lips: Psalm 13 ","post_title":"From Your Lips: Psalm 13","slug":"from-your-lips-psalm-13","old_id":"80608","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":"580","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 13:<\/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.\u00a0<\/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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter Summary:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span><\/em>King David teaches us to ask God not to forget us, and not to hide His face from us. \u201cUntil when\u201d, he asks. How long much each Jew suffer unrelenting persecutions at the hands of his enemies? Yet, he answers, trusting in God\u2019s kindness will see us through.\u00a0
\r\n<\/span>This psalm consists of six verses, subdivided into three parts. <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Verse 1 is an introduction.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In verses 2 and 3, King David laments: \u201cUntil when, Adonoy, will You forget me, forever? Until when will You hide Your face from me?\u201d<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In verses 4 & 5, he further beseeches God to hear his prayer.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In verse 6, he concludes by expressing his hope and trust in God\u2019s deliverance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shimush Tehillim--When to Say:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span><\/em>To avoid unnatural death and for illness of the eye--Verse 4 states: \u201cbrighten my eyes lest I slumber into death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Where in the Siddur:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span><\/em>Verse 4 is recited as part of the bedtime Shema.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Verse 6 is the ninth verse of Hoshi\u2019a Et Amecha of Pesukei Dezimra<\/em> (Introductory Verses of Praise to the Shacharit morning service.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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13:6 \u201cBut I in Your kindness do trust, my heart exults in Your rescue. Let me sing to the LORD, for He requited me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This affirmation of faith in God\u2019s readiness to stand by the supplicant and rescue him from his distress is a turning point in mood, and perhaps even in genre, in this short poem. The speaker, no longer fearing that God will forget him forever, is suddenly sustained by a sense of trust in God, and he conjures up God\u2019s intervention on his behalf almost as though it were an accomplished fact. In this way, the poem that began as desperate supplication concludes on the note of celebration, in the manner of a thanksgiving psalm, \u201cLet me sing to the LORD, for He requited me.\u201d The fluidity of genres of many of the psalms is an expression of their psychological dynamism--they express not one static attitude but an inner evolution or oscillation of attitudes. Perhaps the prayer itself served as a vehicle of transformation from acute distress to trust.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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  1. How long??<\/em> It\u2019s hardest when you can\u2019t see the end...<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Being noticed, that is all<\/em>. For the psalmist - that\u2019s the most important thing. \u201cHiding God\u2019s face\u201d and God ignoring their plight, are the most devastating. Being seen gives life, and not only to the psalmist.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. What will they say<\/em>? That\u2019s what\u2019s worrying the psalmist in verse 5: \u201clest my enemy say, \u2018I have overcome him.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Exultation vs. exultation<\/em>. 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