Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Isaias 58:6

For there are no fetters to their death Heb. חרצבות, an expression of tying, as (Isa. 58:6): “to undo the fetters (חרצבות) of wickedness,” meaning the locks of the fetters with which they bind the poor. Here, too, there are no pains to their death. Those who die among them die healthy, [strong as] a palace, without pains. But our Rabbis explained חַרְצֻבּוֹת as an abbreviation, meaning that they are not (שאין) frightened (חרדין) or saddened (עצבין) by the day of death (Shab. 31b). Another explanation: that the Holy One, blessed be He, does not delay (מאחר) their desire (צביונם).

“Is such the fast, etc.” [58:5]. That is to say, is this called fasting, to torment your body, bow Modim deeply, and wear a sack, and ashes on his head? You think that you have fasted properly? God does not desire this. Rather, “to unlock fetters of wickedness and unite the cords of the yoke” [58:6]. That is to say, open the buttons of your heart and the things you have against your friend and make peace with him. Help the poor and lend him money before he falls very low. It is a very meritorious thing to lend the pauper, more than to give him charity. When you have a servant of the children of Israel, do not torment them with heavy labor.⁸Radak, Isaiah, 58:5.