시편 35:10의 무사르

One who has time should also recite the following verses, each of which alludes to a different limb: “And as for You, Hashem, You shield me, my soul, and lift up my head (Tehillim 3:4). “I proclaim righteousness among a large congregation, behold I will not refrain my lips; You know this, Hashem” (Tehillim 40:10). I called to Him with my mouth and exaltation was beneath my tongue” (ibid., 66:17). “Hashem’s instructions are upright, causing the heart to rejoice; Hashem’s commandments are pure, illuminating the eyes” (ibid., 19:9). “Hear the sound of my supplication when I cry out to You, when I lift up my hands towards Your holy sanctuary” (ibid., 28:2). “To do Your will, my God, was my desire, and Your Torah was within my intestines” (ibid., 40:9). “All my bones will declare, Hashem, “Who is like You?’ ” (ibid., 35:10). “I will bless Hashem who advised me, even at night my kidneys rebuke me” (ibid., 16:7). My foot stood upon a plain, among congregations I will bless Hashem” (ibid., 26:12). Afterwards let him recite this Mishnah encompassing the entire body from top to bottom: One may only stand to pray in a spirit of weighty- headedness [i.e., solemnity]. The pious of earlier times would pause for an hour before praying in order to direct their hearts towards the Omnipresent One. Even if the king asks after his welfare and even if a snake is wrapped around his heel he must not interrupt. Afterwards let him say the verse, “The end of the matter when everything is heard is to fear God and keep His commandments, for that is the entirety of a man” (Koheles 12:13). This verse alludes to the observance of all 613 commandments. Whoever conducts himself in this manner will enjoy good fortune, selah.

Every Shabbos and Rosh Chodesh the ruach ascends to the upper Gan Eden where it receives the illumination and pure radiance of the neshamah. With this it descends to its place at the conclusion of the day. Afterwards the nefesh ascends and receives some of that illumination and radiance that the ruach brought with it from the neshamah in the upper Gan Eden. Then the nefesh descends and enters the grave where it takes the image of the body as it was when it was alive in this world and through this it clothes itself in a body, precisely as it was when the person was alive. In this manner the righteous stand upon their graves uttering words of praise and acknowledgement to God, may His name be blessed, for the lofty illumination of the neshamah, their faces radiating with great luminance. At that time they sing many songs and praises, precisely as they originally appeared, their bones knitted together and fleshed out like an actual body. If the living were allowed to perceive them they would see them at the conclusion of every Shabbos, Rosh Chodesh and Yom Tov in bodily form, standing upon their graves reciting songs and praises. This is the meaning of the verse, “All my bones will declare, Hashem, ‘Who is like You!” (Tehillim 35:10). Note that it is not stated that they “say” but that they “will say.” This is an allusion to the reciting of songs and praises by the dead at the conclusion of every Shabbos, Yom Tov and Rosh Chodesh.