잠언 5:5의 Chasidut
רַ֭גְלֶיהָ יֹרְד֣וֹת מָ֑וֶת שְׁ֝א֗וֹל צְעָדֶ֥יהָ יִתְמֹֽכוּ׃
그 발은 사지로 내려가며 그 걸음은 음부로 나아가나니
Kedushat Levi
Another allusion conveyed by the shalshelet over our word reminds us of Proverbs 5,5 where Solomon says of the sexually immoral woman, the זונה, that “her feet go down to death, her steps support ‘she-ol,’ hell.” Joseph reminded himself of that dictum and was aware of the need to keep his distance from this kind of “death,” and to cleave to G’d instead. G’d’s name is always linked to life, i.e. eternal life in the celestial regions, as King Chiskiyah (after recovering from his sickness) pointed out in his prayer in Isaiah 38,11אמרתי לא אראה י-ה, י-ה בארץ החיים “I said to myself that I would not see G’d, the G’d Who is in the land of the Living.” According to Sotah 36 the reason why the letter ה was added to Joseph’s name (psalms 81,6; so that it contained 3 of the letters of the tetragram) was that he sanctified the Lord’s name in the privacy of his master’s house. [Yehudah, who sanctified the Lord’s name in public (Nachshon at the sea of Reeds) had two letters added to his name, i.e. his name contained the entire tetragram. Ed.] The shalshelet over the word וימאן alerts us to when Joseph earned eternal life.
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