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\u201cFrom the depths I have called You\u201d, the opening verse of Psalm 130, is in my eyes the universal cry of humanity. It comes as no surprise then that those words are used regularly in the Jewish, Catholic, Anglican and Protestant liturgies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are two elements in this text that I wanted to express through the Hebrew letters. The first one is the feeling of being trapped and submerged in the depths. This moment of realization is not obvious. Often as we fall we are unaware of our regression. Not before the arrival at the deepest point do we realize our state. In this sense, the depth is not only a place of grief and distress but also the right location for redemption. The Hebrew letters curve downwards as they indicate the depth as the epicenter of positive disillusionment with ourselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second element expressed through the Hebrew letters is the call. Once we realize where we are at, we turn upwards and call in hope and fervor. We stretch and decide to cry for help. This is not just a passive awaiting for the rescue but an active choice to change perspective and pull ourselves out of the depth. The letters send their heads upwards and amplify the empowering call of life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Did you know that many not-for-profit religious organizations use the identical template for incorporation, and that it describes the purpose of their organizing as reciting Tehillim? Indeed, it is likely that this psalm is the one recited most frequently of all, since it is used in prayers for people who are seriously ill, when facing a profound life-challenge, or confronting a potential communal or national catastrophe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is also the reason that in some synagogues\u2014mostly of the Sephardic or Oriental variety\u2014the pulpit (`<\/em><\/span>amud<\/span><\/em>) at which the cantor (<\/span>chazan<\/span><\/em>) is stationed is recessed into the floor to literally fulfill \u201cOut of the depths I call You, O Lord\u201d (1). Ibn Ezra, however, interpreted the depths figuratively, saying: \u201cScripture says out of the depths because it speaks of Israel in exile. Israel in exile suffers poverty, shame, and degradation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak wrote, similarly, that \u201cHe compared the exile to deep waters,\u201d and, apropos of v.6: \u201cI am more eager for the Lord than watchmen for the morning, watchmen for the morning,\u201d he added: \u201cIt was their custom to be alert and awake each morning to pray to God, and this psalm was recited by every pious person in exile.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim, though, added a spiritual dimension:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Depths is used to describe a literal deep place, as opposed to a high place, and, similarly, the poor, weak, exiled, and the like. It can also be used to describe the spiritual depth of one who, by sinning, has distanced himself from God Who is above even the loftiest heights, and whose soul reposes in depth and in lowliness, even though he might, physically, be successful and on the top of the world. 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\"\u2026 Out of the depths have I called upon You, O Lord.\" (Psalm 130:1)<\/p>\r\n

I've reached the ocean's bottom, with a crown
\r\nOf sea-weeds on my head. I thought I found
\r\nA way to stay afloat, but waters pound
\r\nMy body as a surging stream of brown
\r\nAnd murky undercurrents pull me down
\r\nBelow the surface of the sea, which drowned
\r\nFar better men than me. Strong waves surround
\r\nMe, Lord, pushing me hard, making me drown.<\/p>\r\n

Out of the depths I ask, my God, for air
\r\nTo fill my lungs, out of the depths I ask
\r\nTo swim and to ascend, I ask to cleave
\r\nTo You, out of the depths, out of despair
\r\nI ask to rise anew, accepting the task
\r\nOf seeking faith and learning to believe.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":90343,"alt":"","title":"ps130-sin weight burden","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden.jpg","width":1920,"height":1315,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden-300x205.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":205,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden-768x526.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":526,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden-1024x701.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":701,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1052,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1315,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden-1200x822.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":822,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden-613x420.jpg","home_baner-width":613,"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":"Out Of The Depths","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"out of the depths, out of despair \/ I ask to rise anew, accepting the task","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":90343,"alt":"","title":"ps130-sin weight burden","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden.jpg","width":1920,"height":1315,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden-300x205.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":205,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden-768x526.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":526,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden-1024x701.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":701,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1052,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1315,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden-1200x822.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":822,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ps130-sin-weight-burden-613x420.jpg","home_baner-width":613,"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":"130","chapter_main_number":"697","date":"20280501","wall_id":"697"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":6,"id":"90354","color":"#f2e9df","size":"1","name":"Psalm 130: An Enlightened Approach ","post_title":"Psalm 130: An Enlightened Approach","slug":"psalm-130-an-enlightened-approach","old_id":"90354","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":62571,"post_title":"Yaakov Bieler","slug":"yaakov-bieler","old_id":"62571","first_name":"Yaakov ","last_name":"Bieler ","description":"Rabbi Yaakov Bieler has been involved in Jewish education and the synagogue Rabbinate in New York, NY and Silver Spring, MD since being ordained by Yeshiva University in 1974. 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As a synagogue rabbi, I have led my congregation in reading this psalm responsively countless times; praying for the recovery of someone who is seriously ill. The employment of the psalm in this context assumes that \u201cthe depths\u201d (v. 1) is the condition of sickness, \u201cthe appeal for God\u2019s mercy\u201d is requesting that the individual be allowed to return to us and to normal life (v. 2, 6), that \u201chealing\u201d is tantamount to this person\u2019s \u201credemption\u201d (v. 8,) and that God is the only one who can orchestrate such a process (v. 7.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, there is also a presumption in Psalm 130, by its being publicly associated with illness, that the extremely ubiquitous human condition of sickness and death is a function of transgression (v. 3,) and that someone who is ill needs divine forgiveness to recover (v. 4.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is true that the author of Ecclesiastes states that everyone, however righteous, sooner or later, will be guilty of some malfeasance: \u201cFor there is not one good man on earth who does what is best and doesn\u2019t err\u201d (7:20). And, from the earliest days of man\u2019s creation, God decrees that humans will be mortal, and therefore eventually inevitably given over to weakness, frailty, and ill-health: \u201c... what if [the human] should stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever!\u201d So, the LORD God banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he was taken\u201d (Gen. 3:22-3). Thus, it follows that people, in general, being sinful, will therefore also become ill and require forgiveness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, it seems to me that this is a very \u201cretrograde\u201d view of sickness, and is more in keeping with the idea of \u201coriginal sin\u201d \u2014 a taint of the soul from the time when a person comes into existence, and not a Jewish concept at all -- than a positive view of the \u201csin-repentance\u201d continuum, appropriate to the Book of Psalms.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While not one to oppose customs that have become part-and-parcel of the Jewish tradition, I have also told numerous congregants over the years, counter to what the timing of the recitation of this psalm implies, that illness and death do not reflect immoral activity that is being atoned for by an individual experiencing discomfort and ultimately losing their life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A more \u201cenlightened\u201d approach to Psalm 130 would understand it in terms of a person who has freely made poor choices in the past, and is now excitedly anticipating being given a \u201csecond chance\u201d by the Merciful Lawmaker whom they have wronged by engaging in egregious behavior.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps it is necessary to bifurcate this psalm, relegating v. 1,2 6-8, to cases of illness, while the rest of the text pertains to someone who clearly has engaged in transgressive behavior. To \u201ccry out from the depths\u201d can pertain to many situations where the \u201ccry-er\u201d is discouraged and depressed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Fireflies flicker
\r\nIn the forest dark
\r\nMaking light of their desperation,<\/p>\r\n

Risking death
\r\nFor what would be love
\r\nIf love were the chemical reaction<\/p>\r\n

Lighting their abdomens.
\r\nCold light, crepuscular, shriven,
\r\nJust bright enough to see<\/p>\r\n

How unforgivably
\r\nBeautiful you are,
\r\nYour forests and abdomens<\/p>\r\n

And transubstantiation
\r\nOf your creatures\u2019 needs
\r\nInto illumination<\/p>\r\n

You wear like a dress
\r\nSo tight I gasp, a chemical reaction,
\r\nA burst of light<\/p>\r\n

Just bright enough to show
\r\nI\u2019m in love with you again.<\/p>\r\n

There is a line in this psalm which contrasts a line in Psalm 130. In this psalm it says: \u201cHow unforgivably beautiful you are...\u201d. In contrast in Psalm 130 it discusses God\u2019s power to forgive so that God may be held in awe, and even admired: \u201cYours is the power to forgive so that You may be held in awe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\r\n

from: Joy Ladin,\u00a0Psalms<\/em>, Wipf and Stock, 2010<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":80744,"alt":"","title":"joy ladin - psalms","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms.jpg","width":395,"height":343,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms-300x261.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms.jpg","medium_large-width":395,"medium_large-height":343,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms.jpg","large-width":395,"large-height":343,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms.jpg","1536x1536-width":395,"1536x1536-height":343,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms.jpg","2048x2048-width":395,"2048x2048-height":343,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms.jpg","post_full_size-width":395,"post_full_size-height":343,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms.jpg","home_baner-width":395,"home_baner-height":343}},"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":"Unforgivably Beautiful","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"transubstantiation \/ Of your creatures\u2019 needs \/ Into illumination","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":80744,"alt":"","title":"joy ladin - psalms","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms.jpg","width":395,"height":343,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms-300x261.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms.jpg","medium_large-width":395,"medium_large-height":343,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms.jpg","large-width":395,"large-height":343,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms.jpg","1536x1536-width":395,"1536x1536-height":343,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms.jpg","2048x2048-width":395,"2048x2048-height":343,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms.jpg","post_full_size-width":395,"post_full_size-height":343,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/joy-ladin-psalms.jpg","home_baner-width":395,"home_baner-height":343}},"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":"130","chapter_main_number":"697","date":"20280501","wall_id":"697"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":8,"id":"90348","color":"#f6edf6","size":"1","name":"No Resentment! 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Psalm 130 is perhaps one of the most recognizable and most repeated of the twelve \"songs of ascents.\" It is added to the prayer service during the ten days of repentance between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, and it is often the chapter selected during a general psalm recitation after weekly prayer service.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We have seen many Psalms concerned with asking God for forgiveness. Why has this one taken on such an outsized role? This question is amplified by the fact that there is no direct request for forgiveness here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To me the key verse is verse 3: \"If You keep account of sins, O LORD, Lord, who will survive?\" This could be taken two ways. The first is the nihilistic approach- \"well look, everyone sins all the time. If God cared, no one could survive, so why should I care?\"\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second is the helpless view: \"How could we survive if God really took account of all sins. Everyone sins, yet God understands that.\"\u00a0 It's this second view that makes this psalm so powerful. A major part of forgiveness is the understanding that people mess up. If humans harbored resentments towards everyone that harmed them- everyone would be a hermit.\u00a0 Only through the power to forgive are we able to move on. The greatest role model for this is God. God harbors no resentment. He allows humankind to ask for forgiveness and grow.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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I call to You
\r\nfrom the depths of me
\r\nI beg You
\r\nturn to me
\r\nNotice me
\r\nHear me out
\r\nJudge me
\r\nleniently
\r\nI\u2019m counting on
\r\nYour mercy
\r\nI am waiting
\r\nto be tried
\r\nNo man can stand
\r\nbefore You
\r\nconfident
\r\nof innocence
\r\nI wait like a tired
\r\nguard in the night
\r\nfor relief to come with dawn
\r\nin darkness I wait
\r\nfor a glimpse
\r\nof a ray
\r\nof Your
\r\nabundant light
\r\n
\r\nExcerpted from: Gaya Aranoff Bernstein,\u00a0Psalmsongs: A Gathering of Psalms<\/em>, (An Arthur Kurzweil Book, New York\/Jerusalem, 2013)<\/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 130","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"I call to You from the depths of me","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":"130","chapter_main_number":"697","date":"20280501","wall_id":"697"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":10,"id":"90312","color":"#faeed8","size":"1","name":"From Your Lips: Psalm 130 ","post_title":"From Your Lips: Psalm 130","slug":"from-your-lips-psalm-130","old_id":"90312","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. 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Psalm 130:<\/p>\r\n

Author:<\/em>
\r\nUnknown; perhaps 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.<\/p>\r\n

When and Why:<\/em>
\r\nDavid might have written this psalm as a prayer to God to forgive the sins that the people of Israel will commit when they are in exile.<\/p>\r\n

Genre:<\/em>
\r\nPsalm of Individual Lament--This psalm was written from the perspective of the individual worshipper, 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.
\r\nPsalm of Pilgrimage--These psalms were used at the beginning of pilgrimages as well as once the Pilgrim had reached his or her destination.
\r\nSong of Ascents--A title given to fifteen of the Psalms, 120-134, that each starts with the ascription Shir HaMa\u2019alot, meaning \u201cSong of Ascents\u201d. These psalms praise, exalt, and \u201celevate\u201d God.<\/p>\r\n

Chapter Summary:<\/em>
\r\nIn this psalm, the eleventh in the series of Shir HaMa\u2019alot (Song of Ascents), the singer calls upon future exiles to call out to God in times of distress. God, in turn, he assures the reader, will have mercy upon them. The psalmist concludes by pleading for forgiveness for the iniquities of future exiles, as well as for their subsequent deliverance, even if undeserved.<\/p>\r\n

This psalm consists of eight verses, subdivided into two parts.
\r\nIn verses 1-4, the psalmist cries out to God \u201cout of the depths\u201d, and asks that his requests be heard.
\r\nIn verses 5-8, he places his hope in God and proclaims that God will indeed redeem Israel.<\/p>\r\n

Introductory Word:<\/em>
\r\n\u05e9\u05d9\u05e8--Shir\u2014Song<\/p>\r\n

Shimush Tehillim--When to Say:<\/em>
\r\nIn times of distress--Verse 5 states: \u201cI hope for Adonoy, my soul hopes; and for His word, I wait.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Excerpted from <\/span>From Your Lips To God\u2019s Ears<\/span><\/em>, by Reuben Ebrahimoff.<\/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 130","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":"130","chapter_main_number":"697","date":"20280501","wall_id":"697"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":11,"id":"90314","color":"#e6f5f3","size":"1","name":"Dawn-Watchers Watch For Dawn ","post_title":"Dawn-Watchers Watch For Dawn","slug":"dawn-watchers-watch-for-dawn","old_id":"90314","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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130:6 \u201cMy being for the Master--more than the dawn-watchers watch for dawn.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Previous translators have all supplied a predicate here (\u201cis eager,\u201d \u201cis turned to,\u201d or the King James Version\u2019s \u201cwaiteth<\/em>,\u201d duly italicized to show that it is merely implied in the Hebrew). But the power of line in the original is precisely that anticipated verb (\u201cwait\u201d having appeared with its synonym \u201choped\u201d in the preceding line) is choked off: my inner being, my utmost self--for God more than watchmen watch for the dawn. (The Hebrew noun <\/span>boqer<\/span><\/em> also has the more general sense of \u201cmorning,\u201d but in this context of watchman through the night awaiting the first light, \u201cdawn\u201d is strongly indicated.) Previous translators render the four Hebrew words <\/span>mishomrim laboqer shomrim laboqer<\/span><\/em> as a simple repetition (for example, the New Jewish Publication Society, \u201cthan watchmen for the morning, watchmen for the morning.\u201d) But <\/span>shomrim<\/span><\/em> can be either a verbal noun (\u201cwatchmen\u201d) or a plural verb (\u201cwatch\u201d). The line becomes more vivid and energetic if the second occurrence is understood as a verb: more than the watchmen watch for dawn, I watch--elliptically implied--for the LORD. The force of the image is evident: the watchmen sitting through the last of the three watches of the night, peering into darkness for the first sign of dawn, cannot equal my intense expectancy for God\u2019s redeeming word to come to visit me in my dark night of the soul.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. When it\u2019s really deep<\/em>. From \u201cOut of the depths\u201d emerges the psalm, but there is no mention of the cause of the travail. Except for - the sins. Perhaps the \u201cdepths\u201d here are the depths of the soul, the consciousness.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Twice<\/em>. The great expectation is expressed in the psalm by the use of doublets: \u201cI look to the LORD; I look to Him...I am more eager for the Lord than watchmen for the morning, watchmen for the morning.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Real salvation<\/em>. Divine forgiveness is key, because it is sinfulness that is the main obstacle to redemption. 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