Комментарий о цитате к Мишлей 30:1

Koheles. [He was called Koheles] because he gathered [=קִהֵל much wisdom,¹¹The term קהלת meaning gathering is in Devarim 33:4 where it states, “the gathering [קהלת] of Yaakov.” (Metsudas Tzion) and similarly, elsewhere [Scripture] calls him, “Agur Bin Yokeh,”¹²Mishlei 30:1. This is a reference to Shlomo, meaning the gatherer [אגור] of wisdom [בן] spewed out [יקה] the prophecy [המשא]. because he gathered אָגַר all the wisdom and spewed וַהֲקִיאָהּ it out, and some say that he would say all his words in public assembly [=בְּהַקְהֵל.¹³Alternatively, he gathered together and clarified many conflicting views. (Metsudas Tzion)

בן הכות, “deserves to be punished by physical lashes;” the expression is similar to בן מות, “deserving of the death penalty,” the word בן here with the vowel chirik under the latter ב, is similar to the one in the name of Joshua, i.e. יהושע בן נון, “Joshua, son of Nun,” or אגור בן יקה, in Proverbs 30,1.

In the phrase deserves flogging the Hebrew word bin is vocalized with a ḥiriq , as it is in the phrases “the son of Nun” [Joshua 1: 1], and “the son of Yaqeh” [Proverbs 30: 1]. It is used in the sense of “a base man” [I Samuel 25: 17] and, similarly, “it was a creature of a night” [Jonah 4: 10]. The reason he deserves to be flogged must be, in my opinion, that he struck his companion.

And to grasp foolishness. To things that appear foolish to me, concerning which I said, “Because God is with me, I will be able,”⁵Mishlei 30:1. for example, the [prohibition against] wearing sha’atnez and having mingled species in a vineyard, which Satan and the nations of the world are critical of, and so it states, “It is best to take hold of one,”⁶Below 7:18. and also, regarding Shaul, in whose eyes it seemed foolish to kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, but it was the commandment of the Omnipresent, and he called it foolishness!

Madness. Dullness and confusion of thoughts, an expression of mixing, as in, “diluted מָהוּל with water.”⁴⁹Yeshayahu 1:22.

I understand now, that also wisdom has frustration in it, for in great wisdom, a person relies on his great wisdom and does not distance himself from the prohibition, and much vexation comes to the Holy One, Blessed Is He. I said, “I will get many horses, but I will not return the people to Egypt,” but ultimately, I returned. I said, “I will take many wives, but they will not turn my heart away,” but it is written about me, “his wives swayed his heart.”⁵¹I Melachim 11:4. And similarly it states that he relied on his great wisdom and did many things, as it is stated, “the words of this man to Isieil, because God is with me, I will be able.”⁵²Mishlei 30:1.