WIT-Tehillim-Chapter 66

New Beginnings, Same Ending: Insights on Tehillim (Chapter 66) Rabbi Shmuel Silber

1. For the conductor, a song of praise; shout for joy to God, all the earth. 2. Sing the glory of His name; make glorious His praise. 3. Say to God, "How awesome are Your deeds! Through the greatness of Your might, Your enemies will admit their lies to You. 4. All the earth will prostrate themselves to You and sing praises to You; they will sing praises to Your name forever." 5. Go and see the deeds of God, awesome in His deeds toward mankind. 6. He turned the sea into dry land; in the river they crossed by foot; there we rejoiced with Him. 7. With His might, He rules the world; His eyes oversee the nations; the rebellious ones will not exalt themselves, ever. 8. O peoples, bless our God, and make the voice of His praise heard. 9. He, Who kept our souls alive and did not let our foot falter. 10. For You tested us, O God; You refined us as though refining silver. 11. You brought us into a trap; You placed a chain on our loins. 12. You caused man to ride at our head; we came in fire and water, and You took us out to satiety. 13. I shall come to Your house with burnt offerings; I shall pay You my vows, 14. Which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke in my distress. 15. Burnt offerings of fat animals I shall offer up to You with the burning of rams; I shall prepare cattle with he-goats forever. 16. Come, hearken and I shall tell all you who fear God what He did for my soul. 17. My mouth called out to Him, and He was exalted under my tongue. 18. If I saw iniquity in my heart, the Lord does not hear it. 19. But God heard; He hearkened to the voice of my prayer. 20. Blessed be God, Who did not remove my prayer and His kindness from me.

www.rabbisilber.com www.suburbanorthodox.org 1. Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years, and his mother's name was Hephzibah. 2. And he did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord; like the abominations of the nations that the Lord had driven out from before the children of Israel. 3. And he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars to the Baal, and he made an asherah as Ahab the king of Israel had made, and he prostrated himself to the entire host of the heaven, and he worshipped them. 4. And he built altars in the house of the Lord, concerning which the Lord had said, "In Jerusalem I will establish My Name." 5. And he built altars for the entire host of Heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. 6. And he passed his son through fire; he practiced soothsaying and divination, and he consulted necromancers and those divine by the Jidoa bone; he did much that was evil in the eyes of the Lord, to provoke [Him]. 7. He placed the graven image of the asherah that he made, in the house concerning which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, will I establish My Name forever.

www.rabbisilber.com www.suburbanorthodox.org Rav Yonoson Eybeschütz (1690 in Kraków – 1764 in Altona), was a Talmudist, Halachist, Kabbalist, holding positions as Dayan of Prague, and later as Rabbi of the "Three Communities": Altona, Hamburg and Wandsbek.

Rav Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (April 1847 – 11 January 1905), succeeded his grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, as the Av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) and Rav of Góra Kalwaria, Poland (known in Yiddish as the town of Ger).