Commento su Salmi 132:25

A song of ascents. Remember, O Lord, onto David all his affliction The affliction of his soul, how he worked and toiled to find a place for You.

Until I find a place Until it will be known where the place of His sanctuary will be. (I found this.)

Until I find – We know that all of the land is the Lord’s, only there are honored places which are more honored. Therefore “…and this is the gate of heaven.” (Genesis 28:17)

Until I find a place for the Lord – 1] That the place be found where the Sanctuary will be built, as it is written “And it will be, that the place the Lord, your God, will choose…” (Deuteronomy 12:11) and they did not know at first where the chosen place was. 2] dwellings for the Mighty One of Jacob, after the place is found. the Sanctuary (where the Lord will dwell permanently), will be built. Since the fact that the Lord will dwell on earth in a particular place was revealed to Yaakov in a dream, and he said “This is none other than the house of God…” (Genesis 28:17) therefore the verse says ‘for the One of Jacob.’ So too, just as Yaakov swore an oath there and said “Then this stone, which I have placed as a monument, shall be a house of God…” (Genesis 28:22) the psalm says “…he vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob.” (Psalms 132:2)

we heard it The tidings.

Behold – R’ Moshe (ben Jikatelia) said: we heard it at the hands of David who was from Ephratha. The correct understanding in my eyes is that in days gone by people would say that we heard from the mouth of the prophets that the chosen place is close to Bet Lechem Ephratha. Only, it was unknown whether the place was to the east of Bet Lechem, the west, north or south. It is known that until today there is only a distance of three parsangs between Jerusalem and Bet Lechem:

in Ephrath In the most esteemed and superior place, like (I Sam. 1:1): “the son of Toku, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite,” an important person, a palace dweller. Another explanation: We heard it in Ephrath In the Book of Joshua (ch. 15), who came from Ephraim. In all the boundaries he says, “And the border went up...and the border circled,” but here he says, “And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnon... Jerusalem.” Jerusalem is [therefore] found to be higher than all the lands, and it is fit for the Temple, as it is said (Deut. 17:8): “and you shall arise and ascend to the place, etc.” This teaches [us] that the Temple is higher than the whole land of Israel. So it is expounded upon in tractate Zevahim (54b).

in the fields of the forest – where the threshing floor of Aravna the Jebusite is located.

we found it in the fields of the forest In the boundary of Benjamin, who was likened to a beast of the forest, as it is said (Gen. 49:27): “Benjamin is a devouring wolf.”

Let us come there to His Tabernacles.

turn not away the face of Your anointed Solomon, when he comes to place the Ark therein.

and this, My testimony, which I shall teach them This which I shall teach them.

For – It mentions Zion because it is called the city of David, since he rejoiced when it was revealed to him that the mountain of the House of the Lord is Zion.

For the Lord has chosen Zion – Because the choice of the seed of David was for the sake of the choice of Zion as I explained above. And it says that in the beginning the Lord chose Zion in the sense of a choice which excludes all other places, and afterwards ‘He desired it for His habitation,’ He desired the place in and of itself without looking at it in relation to rejecting anywhere else.

its provision its food.

will shine Heb. יציץ, which shine, like (Ezek. 1:7): “and they sparkled (ונצצים) like the color of burnished copper.”