시편 147:14의 인용 해설

“And behold seven other cows” — They are called other/different because it is said He makes your borders peaceful, He satisfies you with the finest wheat (Psalms 147:14), and similarly [the sages say] “When grain is depleted from the jar, strife comes knocking” (Bava Metzia 59a). Each one becomes “other/different” to his fellow, their hearts are divided and they are not united. For this same reason, regarding the good stalks it says they “came up on one stalk,” indicating unity, and by inference we understand that the bad ones were not united. Similarly with the cows, it mentions others regarding the bad ones, and by inference we understand that the good ones were not “other” but rather unified. Another explanation for why they are called others is because each year’s curse was greater than the previous one, as the famine grew progressively worse. Therefore, each year was like a different year, but the good years were all equally good. Another explanation is that because they were years of suffering, they appeared to be many days, but the good years were like single days in their love and pleasures.

And then He detailed the reward for each of these three. Corresponding to the study of Torah alluded to in if you walk in My statutes, He says I will give your rains in their time. He does not simply say rains because He does not want to designate the reward for Torah study now, as this matter is already known that rain falls in the merit of Torah, and they are already your rains. Except that now an additional thing is that those rains which are already your rains and designated for you, now I will give them in their time in the merit of if you walk in My statutes, as has been explained.
And the land will give its yield. For if there is Torah, there is flour [sustenance]. And the meaning of its yield [yevulah] is not “what you bring [movil] to it” as Rashi explains on the verse and your land will not give its yield (Deuteronomy 11:17). For if so, what is the novelty? Rather, later [in Deuteronomy] Rashi interprets from the extra word et [which indicates inclusion], as every “et” comes to include, and it includes that even what you bring to it, it will not give. But here “et” is not stated, and if so, everything is included in its yield, meaning what it typically brings to your home. For if not, why is “et” not stated here as it is later? Rather, here it means what it typically brings, and later from the extra “et” we derive that even what you bring to it [is included].
And the vintage shall reach the sowing time. It does not say “for you” [regarding wine] because bread is a necessity that will be for you, but wine is a luxury, not for your pleasure but rather for the sake of fulfilling commandments.
And you shall eat your bread to satisfaction. The letter “lamed” in l’sova [to satisfaction] indicates that one should not eat until completely full, but rather slightly less than full satiation, as doctors advise, so that one comes close to but does not reach complete fullness.
And you shall dwell securely [literally, to security] in your land. The letter “lamed” in la’vetach [to security] indicates that satiation leads to security, as it is written He makes your borders peaceful; He satiates you with the finest wheat (Psalms 147:14). And our Sages said (Bava Metzia 59a), “When the measure of grain is exhausted from the jug, knocking [quarreling] comes.”

The Pesikta writes about the verse “all your wall of precious stones” [54:12]. Rabbi Benjamin son of Levi says that in the days of the Messiah, the Israelites will mark the boundaries of their fields with precious stones. Each person will take many precious stones and will place them around his field so that he should know how far his field extends. That is to say, he will make a wall out of precious stones, since there will be so many in Jerusalem. Rabbi Levi said that when a person owes his friend a thousand gulden, they both come to the judges. Sometimes the judges cannot do enough for both of them and one of them does not like the judgment. However, in the days of the Messiah if someone will grasp his friend and say to him, let us go to the Messiah in Jerusalem and let him judge us. When they approach Jerusalem, they will see many precious stones lying on the ground. One Jew will take two good stones and say to his friend. Do I owe you the value of these two precious stones? What do you want from me? Take these two precious stones. They soon make peace with each other and he will say, you don’t owe me so much. You owed me a thousand gulden and the precious stones you have given me are worth two thousand gulden. Concerning this the verse says, “He grants peace within your borders” [Psalms, 147:14]. Your borders will make peace. That is to say, the precious stones near Jerusalem make peace over Israel. ¹⁰Yalkut Shimoni, Isaiah, Remez 478; Pesikta de-Rav Kahana, 18.6.

with white wine [Heb. בְּיֵין חֶלְבּוֹן,] cooked white wine, and Menachem (p. 89) connects it with (Ps. 147:14): “the best (חֵלֶב) of the wheat,” an expression of goodness