Midrash su Salmi 92:7
אִֽישׁ־בַּ֭עַר לֹ֣א יֵדָ֑ע וּ֝כְסִ֗יל לֹא־יָבִ֥ין אֶת־זֹֽאת׃
Un uomo brutale non lo sa, né uno sciocco lo capisce.
Midrash Tanchuma
For Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work alludes to the Tent of Meeting. I will exult in the works of Thy hands refers to the building of the Temple, may it be rebuilt speedily in our time. How great are thy works, O Lord: Thy thoughts are very deep (ibid., v. 6) relates to the fact that You decided to combine the celebration of the erection of the Tabernacle with the celebration of the birthday of our patriarch Isaac. That day he received ten crowns, as discussed in Seder Olam.20See Seder Olam 7. Seder Olam is a tannaitic midrash dealing with chronological matters. See Strack, Introduction to Talmud and Midrash, p. 225. The ten crowns are ten events that occurred on that day. See the lis tin Ginzberg, Legends, vol. III, p. 181.. Therefore it says: A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a food understand this (ibid., v. 7). A brutish man knoweth not alludes to the scoffers and fools of that generation, who did not know the thoughts of the Holy One, blessed be He. Neither doth a fool understand refers to those who do not realize that none of them would be able to rear it, neither Bezalel nor Oholiab nor the wise men who had performed the work. Only Moses would come and do his part, since he was troubled by the fact that he had not participated at all in the work done on the Tabernacle. Therefore Moses reared the Tabernacle, and neither Bezalel nor Oholiab nor the wise could do it. And it is written: And it came to pass on that day that Moses made an end of setting up the Tabernacle (Num. 7:1). When the Tabernacle was set up, the Shekhinah descended into it immediately, as it is said: And Moses was not able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle (Exod. 40:35). It is written elsewhere: For the cloud of the Lord was upon the Tabernacle by day (ibid., v. 38) to fulfill what is written: Surely His salvation is nigh them that fear Him; that glory may dwell in our land (Ps. 85:10). The Holy One, blessed be He, said: In this world My Shekhinah will dwell among you and within your sight, as it is said: And the appearance of the glory of the Lord (Exod. 24:1), but in the future the Shekhinah will never depart from you, as it is said: In that day I will dwell therein among the children of Israel and will not forsake My people Israel (I Kings 6:13). Blessed be the Lord forever. Amen. Selah.
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Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer
"Upon a ten-stringed instrument and upon the psaltery" (Ps. 92:8). All testimonies reliable to Israel are (celebrated) with ten (males). The harp upon which David played had ten strings. The testimony for the dead is through ten (males). The testimony for the (public) benediction of (God's) Name is through ten (males). The testimony of the covenant of circumcision is through ten (males). The testimony for Chalizah is through ten (males), as it is said, "And he took ten men of the elders of the city" (Ruth 4:2).
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Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer
"How great are thy works, O Lord!" (Ps. 92:5). Adam began to glorify and to praise the Name of the Most High, as it is said, "How great are thy works, O Lord!" (ibid.) but Thy thoughts are very deep, like the great deep exceedingly (deep), as it is said, "Thy thoughts are very deep" (ibid.). "A brutish man knoweth not" (Ps. 92:6). Every man of Israel who is brutish (in knowledge) and has not learnt understanding, let the wise men of Israel teach him the ways of the Torah, as it is said, "Consider, ye brutish among the people" (Ps. 94:8). But a man who is an expert among the nations of the world is still foolish. Why? For he knoweth not the words of the Torah, as it is said, "Neither doth a fool || understand this" (Ps. 92:6).
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Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer
"When the wicked spring up as the grass" (Ps. 92:7). True (it is) that Thou, O Lord, beholdest the wicked, that they are as numerous as the grass to cover the face of all the earth, and all the worshippers of idols flourish, (Thou knowest) that they and their works are an evil iniquity for the days of the Messiah. The Holy One, blessed be He, has only multiplied them in order to destroy them from this world and from the world to come, as it is said, "To have them destroyed for ever and ever. And thou, O Lord, art on high for evermore" (Ps. 92:7, 8). David saw that the wicked increased like grass, (so as) to cover the face of all the earth, and that all the worshippers of idols flourished, and that they and their works were iniquity, and he did not say "Hallelujah" ("praise ye the Lord") until he perceived that in the future they would be destroyed from this world and from the world to come; and he said "Hallelujah," as it is said, "Sinners shall be consumed out of the earth, and the wicked shall be no more. Bless the Lord, O my soul. Praise ye the Lord" (Ps. 104:35). (Then will He be) King exalted in the heights and in the depths, as it is said, "And thou, O Lord, art on high for evermore" (Ps. 92:8).
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