Kaisipang Hudyo sa Mga Awit 72:5: Derush Chiddushei HaLevanah

Nevertheless, I will not refrain from explaining the association of this passage to several verses in Tehillim, Psalm 72, which was authored by King Shlomoh:⁸Tehillim 72:5-7. “They will fear You as long as the sun and the moon endure, for all generations. May his words⁹I.e., the words of the king mentioned at the beginning of the psalm. descend like rain on cut grass, like raindrops that saturate the earth. The righteous will flourish in his days, blessed with abundant peace, until the moon ceases to exist.” The Midrash,¹⁰Shmos Rabbah 15:26 as quoted also in Sefer HaAkeidah,¹¹Akeidas Yitzchak, Shaar 37. This text, by R. Yitzchak ben Moshe Aramah, is often referred to simply as “the Akeidah”. comments: “This month shall be¹²Shmos 12:2. – This relates to the verse, “The righteous will flourish in his days, blessed with abundant peace, until the moon ceases to exist.” Even before the Holy One, blessed be He, took the Jews out of Egypt, He intimated to them that their monarchy would be granted to them only until the thirtieth generation, saying: “Just as the moon has 30 days, your monarchy will encompass 30 generations.” On the first day of the month, the moon begins to shine and proceeds, growing in light until the fifteenth day of the month. Then, the moon’s disk becomes full. So too, Avraham began to shine… then Yitzchak… then Yaakov. Afterwards followed Yehudah, Peretz, Chetzron, Ram, Aminadav, Nachshon, Salmon, Boaz, Oved, Yishai, and David. In Shlomoh’s time,¹³I.e., in the fifteenth generation. the disc of the moon became full.