Chasidut su Genesi 43:11

In the Jewish tradition, the number seven is associated with music. According to the Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, there are seven major bodies of water, and the seventh is the Kinneres (Sea of Galilee), which lies east of Tiberias, Israel. The word Kinneres comes from the word kinor, “harp,” for it is a lake shaped like a harp that leads all the other lakes in song to God.⁴⁶⁹“All the bodies of water sing to God. This is the meaning of the phrase in our prayers: illu finu malei shirah ka-yam u-lishoneinu rinnah ka-hamon gallav, ‘Were our mouths filled with song like the ocean, and our tongues with praise like the multitudes of waves.’ Apparently, the ocean and its waves are viewed by Jewish thought as a great song to God, and we are saying that we too should sing like them. The Kinneres Lake is the cantor leading all the waves and oceans in their musical chant” (Tzion Ve-Arehah pg. 90). The Midrash states further that there are seven major land- masses: the six continents and the Land of Israel. The Land of Israel is the land of song. When Jacob told his sons to take some of the produce of the land, he said, Kechu mi-zimras ha-aretz, which can be translated, “Take some of the song of the land” (Gen. 43:11).⁴⁷⁰When Messiah will arrive, we will hear the songs that the stones and pebbles of Israel are singing. Then we will merit the fulfillment of the verse, Mi-kenaf ha-aretz zemiros shamanu, “From the edges of the land we heard songs” (Tzion Ve-Arehah pg. 50, quoting Isa. 24:16).