말라기 2:11의 인용 해설

Wie tief die geschlechtliche Verirrung mit Nichtjüdinnen die ganze Zukunft des Judentums untergräbt, ist in dem Peorabfall, seinen Ursachen und Folgen (Bamidbar 25, 1-13) für alle Zeiten warnend niedergelegt. Spricht doch Maleachi (2, 11 u. 12) über solche Verirrungen geradezu כרת aus: בגדה יהודה ותועבה נעשתה בישראל ובירושלם כי חלל יהודה קדש ה׳ אשר אהב ובעל בת אל נכר יכרת ד׳ לאיש אשר יעשנה ער ועונה מאהלי יעקב ומגיש מנחה לד׳ צבאות und Esra 9 u. 10 sah den geistigen Untergang seines Volkes vor Augen, weil לא נבדלו חעם מעמי הארצות כי נשאו מבנתיהם להם ולבניהם, und die höheren Schichten der jüdischen Gesellschaft waren in dieser Verirrung vorangegangen, ויד השרים והסגנים היתה במעל הזה ראשונה, so daß nur durch Aussonderung der Frauen samt den von ihnen geborenen Kindern Israels Zukunft wieder ein reiner Nationalkörper gerettet werden konnte: להוציא כל נשים והנולד מהם ׳וכתורה יעשה וגו.

כי עם קדוש אתה, and it is not appropriate for you to desecrate your sanctity through women committed to alien deities, who will bear you children that are already genetically corrupted. It is this that the prophet Maleachi 2,11 had in mind when he spoke of כי חלל יהודה קדש ה' אשר אהב ובעל בת נכר,”for Yehudah profaned what is holy to the Lord, what He desires, by sleeping with daughters of alien gods.”

V’LO CHIL’LO’ — the fourth year [since the vineyard was planted] had not yet arrived. For the custom regarding a vineyard used to be that when the produce was ripe they would dance there and walk in it with chalilim (flutes). Now, Scripture commanded that all the fruits thereof [of the fourth year] shall be holy, for giving praise unto the Eternal,³⁰⁴Leviticus 19:24. that they should praise the Glorious Name³⁰⁵Further, 28:58. at that celebration. It is possible that the meaning of v’lo chil’lo is “that he has not made it chulin (secular),” this referring to the “redemption” [i.e., exchanging the fruits for money in case he cannot transport them to Jerusalem] which our Rabbis have mentioned,³⁰⁶Maaser Sheini 5:2. it being similar to the expressions: for Judah ‘chileil’ (hath profaned) the holiness of the Eternal³⁰⁷Malachi 2:11. [which means Israel has exchanged Him for other gods]; and he shall not ‘yechaleil’ (profane) his seed³⁰⁸Leviticus 21:15. — Here too, by not being able to bring the fruits to Jerusalem, he exchanges their holiness for the redemption money. [which also means that he shall not exchange his holy seed by taking a woman forbidden to him].