Pemikiran Yahudi Yesaya 26:1: Kol HaTor & Panekha Avakesh

(Isa. 26:1) “the city is a stronghold for us; He will grant salvation to its high walls and outer wall.” -- There is a strong tower against the enemy, like the words in the verse: ”out of the mouths of babes and those who nurse, you established strength.” The term salvation and ! strength are in the sefira Yesod. ’City’ is in the line of Malchut. Together they unite Yesod and Malchut, which means the city will become united together, which will take place in rebuilt Jerusalem. So Efraim is referred to as the “stronghold of my head.”

The midrash in Shir HaShirim Rabbah differentiates between song as shir, in the masculine construct, and shirah, in the feminine construct: Rabbi Berachya said the following in the name of Rabbi Shmuel bar Nachman: Israel is compared to a woman. Just as a female receives a tenth of her father's estate when she departs (as a dowry), thus Israel inherited the land of the seven nations which is a tenth of the Seventy Nations. And just as Israel inherited like a female, their song is in the feminine form (shirah). As it says: Then sang Moses and the Children of Israel this shirah to God. But ultimately in the future, they will come to inherit like a male, as it says: Sing to God a new song (Shir). Rabbi Berachya and Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi say: Why is Israel compared to a female? Just as a female is loaded and unloaded (becomes pregnant and gives birth), loaded and unloaded, and continues until she is unloaded not to be loaded again, similarly Israel is oppressed and redeemed, oppressed and redeemed, until they are finally redeemed not to be oppressed ever again. In Olam HaZeh (This World/Age), since their pain is that of the female giving birth, they sing shirah before Him, in the feminine form. But in Olam Haba (the World/Age to come), their pain will not be from birthing, and they will sing in the masculine form, as is it written: "On that day this shir will be sung (Isaiah 26:1)" (Shir HaShirim Rabbah 1:5:3)