Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk 2 Samuel 19:25

Suffering Leads to Blessing: Blessed is the One who kept His promise to Israel “la’asot: ” (Page 77a): Commenting on the statement in the Talmud, “Until where is the purpose of suffering? ” the Maggid of Mezerich said that it is God’s purpose for us to gain through our suffering and not simply to suffer (for our sins.) The purpose of suffering is the good that comes afterwards. This is the meaning of the word la’asot. Rabbi Shneur Zalmnan of Liadi taught that this word means to repair or to fix as in Genesis 2:3 and in Samuel II 19:25. God calculated the end of Israel’s servitude so that none of the sparks of the people of Israel would be lost. Their ending would come about at just the right time and not a second late. All of their suffering in Egypt was for the purpose of lifting up their divine sparks. This is what God told Abraham, “And also that nation whom they serve will I judge, and afterwards thy will go out with great substance. ” The lifting up of the great sparks will be their great substance.

ירך יעקב, “Yaakov’s loins,” it is good manners to describe the sexual organ not directly, but by reference to an organ located close to it instead. (Ibn Ezra) We find this also in the oral Torah when the Mishnah in Megillah 13 writes that the principal organ that a woman is jealous of in her rival is the ירך; the author avoids naming the vagina. On other occasions, the word: רגלים is used as a substitute for the vagina. Compare Samuel II 19,25 ולא עשה רגליו, translated as “he had not pared his toe nails,” which is not really what the prophet had in mind.

Similar to, “And she made [fixed]...” I.e., ועשתה also means fixing [i.e., improving]. You might object: There (Devarim 21:12), Rashi explained that ועשתה means that she lets her nails grow in order to make herself repulsive. Thus it means [the opposite], not fixing up! The answer is: letting the nails grow indeed improves them, although it makes the woman appear repulsive. Hence, Rashi’s proof from ועשתה is valid. (Re’m) Another answer: By letting her nails grow, although it makes her repulsive, it will eventually improve her status — for otherwise she is prohibited to marry. (Maharshal) The term עשייה clearly means fixing, according to all views, as the Gemara (Yevamos 48a) proves from מפיבושת, about whom it says, ולא עשה רגליו ולא עשה שפמו (Shmuel II, 19:25). Although in that Gemara, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Eliezer disagree whether ועשתה means letting her nails grow or trimming them, the reasons for their views are explained there. (Nachalas Yaakov, see further elaboration there)