Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Mazmur 12:2

Karpas: This word is derived from two words: karim, which means pillows and pas, which means remove, as in the verse, “The loyal have vanished (pasu) from among men.”²Psalms 12:2 One who wishes to wear the crown of Torah must first throw away his pillow (his comforts). We learn this in Avot, “This is the way that is becoming for the study of Torah… sleep upon the ground, and live a life of trouble…”³Pirke Avot 6:4 That is, a person should not lie on pillows and couches. The sages also interpreted the word karpas as a reference to samech parekh, sixty (ten thousands) who faced oppression.⁴When read backwards, the word karpas is made up of the Hebrew letter samekh which is equivalent to the number sixty and the word parekh, oppression. Israel had to be oppressed until there were six hundred thousand men who could stand at Sinai and receive the Torah; only then could they be redeemed. The word, karpas, is an allusion to this number. This notion of six hundred thousand equaling the number of letters in the Torah is common in medieval literature even though the Torah actually possesses considerably fewer letters than this. Sixty x 10,000 is a reference to Israel, since each one of them possesses one of the 600,000 letters that make up Torah.

The part of the hand (פַּ֥ס יְדָ֖א): [Meaning] a piece/part of a hand (חֲתִיכַת יָד - chatichat yad). And similarly [the word pas appears in]: “May there be abundance (פִּסַּת - pissat) of grain” [Psalms 72:16]; also “a coat of many pieces/colors (פַּסִּים - passim)” [Genesis 37:3]. And all [these usages] are derived from the root meaning [seen in] “for the faithful have vanished (פַּסּוּ - passu)” [Psalms 12:2]. And behold, they saw hands without a body.

she arose and destroyed - Heb. וַתְּדַבֵּר, an expression of דֶּבֶר, pestilence. In II Kings (11:1), it is written: וַתְּאַבֵּד. Concerning this generation, David recited: (Ps. 12:1): “For the conductor on the sheminith,” for David foresaw with the holy spirit that in the eighth generation [of his dynasty] all his descendants would be slain by Athaliah, for there are eight generations from Solomon till here. And he prayed that his seed would survive for a remembrance, and said, (ibid. verse 2): “Save, O Lord, for the pious are gone, etc.” In II Kings (11:2), Scripture states that she killed them by poisoning them, for it is written: “and she stole him away from the dying (הַמְמוֹתִים) children of the king”; we read: הַמּוּמָתִים the slain. Both the traditional reading and the masoretic text have authority. הַמּוּמָתִים means that they already died, and the masoretic text in which the word used is הַמְמוֹתִים means that they were dying in agony. This is written in the continuous present tense, i.e., not all at once but continuously being crushed by illnesses, and then dying. An example is (Jer. 16:4): “Dying of (מְמוֹתֵי) sicknesses they shall die, etc. and with famine,” because they too will not die immediately.

destroy Heb. יגמר, lit. finish. An expression of destruction, and so did Menachem (p. 57) interpret: (77:9), “destroyed (גמר) His word”; (12:2), “a pious man has perished (גמר),” and so all of them. (This does not appear in certain editions.)

Ahaziah his son, Joash From Solomon to Joash were eight generations, and since David foresaw that his seed would perish in the days of Joash through Athaliah, as is written in this Book (II Chron. 22:10): “... she arose and destroyed (וַתְּדַבֵּר),” (from the expression of דֶּבֶר pestilence, through poison), he stood in prayer and uttered a psalm (Ps. 12): “For the conductor on the sheminith,” [alluding to an] eight stringed [instrument] (other editions: in number) “for the eighth generation.” (v. 2): “Save, O Lord, for the pious are gone, etc.” And Joash escaped, and from Joash to Josiah are eight generations, for David foresaw that Josiah and his sons would all go to their doom: this one was slain [i.e., Josiah. Perhaps he means Jehoiakim and Zedekiah’s sons as well] and this one’s eyes were gouged out [Zedekiah]. And he [David] prayed again on the sheminith, for the eighth generation (Ps. 6:1f.): “O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger,” and because of his prayer, the sons of Jehoiakim survived, and throughout the entire Book of Psalms, there are only these two mentions of the sheminith. And from Jeconiah (other editions: Jehoiakim) until (verse 24): “Anani seven,” which is [an allusion to] the King Messiah, as it is written: (Dan. 7:13): “... and behold, with the clouds of (עֲנָנֵי) the heavens,” are thirty eight sons, including both sons and generations of the sons. The Holy One, blessed be He, did this because he [David] recited thirty eight praises to Him, as it is written in the Book of Ezra (sic) (I Chron. 29:10 13). From “Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, etc.” until “and to strengthen,” are thirty eight words.