Commentaire de citation sur Les Psaumes 84:3

And it is possible that this is what our sages hinted at in Noam Amrei'hem (Chagigah 12a) when they said "and this is their language - that they are established but do not know on what they are established." The intention is that if the creatures were discerning this distinction and knew the exaltedness of the love for the Holy One and the yearning of the creatures for the hidden One, they would see how great is the hope and strengthening of this silence, which is the world that contracts in order to draw near and enjoy the light of the Mikveh, and does not act with weakness in any part of the revolving world. They will then take this lightly and know how much a person needs to do, for in it the discernment and intelligence increase. You should also know that since all creatures fill the entire world, wherever the vital spirit is, as our sages said (Yalkut Tehillim 159), "for no soul rests in its place, but rather it is to the side that it desires and yearns for the fullness of this world, so that the soul will not despise the flesh." And for this reason, the Lord illuminated His world from His glory, and His glory fills the entire world, and the world is found within the midst of its Creator, and the light of the Creator is within the entire world and revolves His world. And in this way, the world stood and was established through the yearning for existence, and this is what it means when it says "and the heaven and the earth were finished, and all their host." The meaning is that they were finished in the sense of yearning that is great until the part is completely exhausted into everything, and this is a great level of desire and yearning, and David hinted at it when he said "for it desires and also longs." This indicates that this level is greater than the preceding one, and through this level and its strengthening, the world exists. And this is the secret of the calling of "He who lives through the worlds" and "the Son," and this is the secret in the light of the King of Life's countenance.

with the kidneys [literally: on the kidneys] as in “the men came with the women” [literally: on the women] [Exodus 35:22]

עם חלב כליות חטה, the choicest fat of the wheat kernels. [The word כליות can obviously not refer to kidneys, seeing that wheat does not have kidneys. The author therefore searches for other pertinent meanings which can be applied to Moses’ hyperbole here. Ed.] In Samuel II 13,39 we find the line ותכל דוד המלך לצאת אל אבשלום, which the author understands as “King David now pined, had an overpowering desire for Avshalom,” since he had by now gotten over the death of his son Amnon (whom Avshalom had murdered). In Psalms 84,3 we read כלתה נפשי, “my soul yearns for….” In other words, the root כלה, from which the wordכליות is derived can mean “to have a craving.” People can develop a craving for this kind of wheat once they have tasted its excellence. In Psalms 73,26 כלה שארי, the word may also describe a craving of one’s body. As to the letter י in the word כליות in our verse, which appears to contradict the claim that the root is כלה, consider the relationship between שבה and שביה, shivyah, where we also suddenly discover a letter י that appears unaccounted for. Another such example occurs with the root בנה and הבניה in Ezekiel 41,13, where the י in הבניה appears unaccounted for. The fact is, that when roots ending with the letter ה such as בנה and שבה experience the semi-vowel sheva abbreviating the syllable, the letter י is substituted for the original letter ה.

נכספתה means THOU DIDST LONG—It occurs many times in Scripture: (Psalms 89:3) “My soul yearneth (נכספה) yea, pineth”; (Job 14:15) “Thou wouldst have a desire (תכסוף) to the work of hands”.

Dovid desired. This is a shortened verse, [it means to say:] "Dovid's soul desired." Yonoson also translates [this way:] "Dovid's soul desired," as [we find:] "[My Soul] yearns, and even pines."⁷Tehilim 84:3. Language [denoting] desire.