Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Yesaya 38:1

Shemot Rabbah 9,1 phrases it thus. Seeing that even righteous people demand legitimisation by the performance of a miracle, it is clear that wicked people will do no less. We find that after the deluge G’d said to Noach that He would not ever again bring a deluge to wipe out all the people. Noach asked for a sign. Thereupon G’d gave him the sign of the rainbow (Genesis 9,12). When King Chiskiyah was told by the prophet Isaiah that G’d had accepted his prayer for an extension of his life, the King (a very loyal Jew who almost became the Messiah) asked for a sign that the message from Isaiah which contradicted his earlier message that he should make his last will and testament was true (Isaiah 38,1-7). Seeing that these righteous people asked G’d for a sign, we cannot blame Pharaoh for asking Moses to perform some miracle.

כי משחיתים.... כי גדלה צעקתם, the outcry to G’d by the victims of the cruelties of the Sodomites has become too great. In this construction the pronoun ending has been appended to the subject as well as to the predicate, just as in Isaiah 56,7 ושמחתים בבית תפלתי it has been appended to the predicate or in Isaiah 38,1 שמעתי את תפלתך where it has been appended to the subject.

And so we find regarding Hezekiah, that he was initially punished for not engaging in procreation (Berakhot 10), and the prophet said to him Put your house in order, for you shall die and not live (Isaiah 38:1). Our Sages interpreted there that you shall die refers to this world, and not live refers to the World to Come. What is the reason for this great anger, that for the sin of neglecting procreation, he would be punished both in this world and the next? Rather, it is because it is written For in Yah, the Lord is the Rock of Worlds (Isaiah 26:4), and from this we learn that this world was created with the letter heh and the World to Come with the letter yod. And because he did not engage in procreation, he caused the divine name of yod-heh to be removed from man and woman, and it is as if he destroyed both worlds, whose existence depends on the name of yod-heh, for the Name would depart from all creatures and ascend to heaven. Therefore, his judgment was to be banished from both worlds. Similarly, the generation of the flood, because they profaned the name of yod-heh, their judgment was also definitively to be banished from both this world and the World to Come, as is found in chapter Chelek (Sanhedrin 107b) that the generation of the flood has no portion in the World to Come. Therefore, in contrast, it is stated I shall not die but live (Psalms 118:16) — I shall not die in this world, for I shall live also in the World to Come, and I will recount the works of Yah, for in Yah the Lord is the Rock of Worlds, as both worlds are the work of Yah. Therefore, when Hezekiah repented and accepted upon himself to engage in procreation and restored the name of yod-heh to its place, it was consequently said to him Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life (Isaiah 38:5), corresponding to the name yod-heh. And it says Hineni yosif [Behold, I will add] — an unusual grammatical construction, for it should have said “Hineni mosif,” but this is because Hineni yosif has the initial letters yod-heh, indicating that it was in the merit of the name yod-heh that he merited this addition.