Cytowanie Komentarza do Psalmów 90:2

You should also know that we have a tradition which suggests that the 42-lettered name of G’d is alluded to by the fact that there are 42 letters in the first verse of the Torah between the first letter ב and the letter ב in the word in the word בהו in verse 2. The 42- lettered name of G’d is part of the attribute of Justice something which has been derived by the application of many “צירופים, “permutations” of the letters in G’d’s Holy Name. When you examine the matter closely you will find in the arrangement of the letters of the Torah in this opening paragraph a reference to the number בהר'ד i.e. the precise time of the creation of the luminaries which I discussed on page 12. Each one of those four letters appears at exactly the same distance from each other just as does the letter ב. The intelligent reader will understand what I refer to. One does not need to be especially brilliant to realise that such relationships of a string of letters on repeated occasions cannot be accidental, but are intended to alert the careful reader to a profound message. The message is that the creation of the universe reported in our paragraph had not been the first of its kind, but that there had been other universes prior to the one we live in. This is alluded to in Psalms 90,2 where the psalmist speaks about periods בטרם הרים יולדו, “before the mountains had been “born.” At such a time the attribute of Justice operated in the absence of any “tool” and proceeded to create such a “tool”, i.e. the universe. [In Kabbalistic writings the word הרים “mountains” refers to the three patriarchs Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, who respectively reflect the virtues of חסד, גבורה, תפארת also known as part of the ten emanations, based on a book called אזרח בישראל. The word כלי may be understood as an acrostic of כהן, לוי, ישראל] The message would be that the attribute of Justice found it counterproductive to be active in a world which lacked these three kinds of people. Ed.

וינטלם And he bare them. Comp. ונטל and the weight (Prov. 27:3). It refers to the deliverance of Israel from Egypt. And he carried them in their land. כל ימי עולם All the days of the long period of their stay in their own land.¹⁶עולם is, according to I. E., a long period, but its nature and limits must be gathered from the context; ימות עולם (Deut. 32:7) refers to the past; עד עולם (Ps. 90:2) for ever to the future; עד עולם (1 Sam. 1:22), the whole lifetime, etc., here I. E. infers from the preceding, And he carried them in their land, that it refers to the period during which they had possession of their land.