Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Mga Awit 41:5

כי Though. Comp. כי חטאתי לך רפאה נפשי Heal my soul, although I have sinned against thee (Ps. 41:5)

Zeror ha-Mor writes. Just as the person’s body has diseases, so too the person’s soul has diseases, as the verse says, “heal my soul for I have sinned” [Psalms, 41:5]. That is to say, heal me and my soul. Since he says that his soul should be healed, it must be sick sometimes. Therefore, just as sometimes there are diseases of the person’s body that are called life threatening, there are some that are easy and last for a day. These are not dangerous. However, because they have no remedy, they are severe. So too is slander. The person thinks that he commits no sin in speaking slander, because he has done nothing but speaking with his mouth. The person does not desire repentance or a remedy for slander. He thinks that it is not a sin. There are also some diseases that are called dangerous, even though they are not dangerous, since the remedy exists. However, the remedy is very ugly and bitter for the person. He would die before he would take the remedy. So too it is with slander. The remedy is that he must go to the one whom he slandered and must say: I have slandered you. A person would rather die before he would do this. Sometimes a disease is not dangerous and the remedy is not ugly, but it is dangerous, because the remedy is far from him and before he can obtain it, he might die before he gets the remedy. So too it is with slander. When a person wants to repent for it, it is far to go to the one he spoke about in order to ask forgiveness of him. He might die before he would come to him. He also does not know the people about whom he spoke ill. Sometimes, the remedy is close and is not ugly, but the disease has been in the body for a long time and has taken it over, so that the remedy cannot help him. So too it is with slander. The speech is always in the person and he has become accustomed to much slander all the time, day and night. The slander is very strong in him and no remedy can help him. The person must continue to sin. He comes to slander because he speaks much. Therefore, the person should not accustom himself to speak much and he will not come to slander.⁶Zeror ha-Mor, Leviticus, 14:2.

Although (ki) it is a stiff-necked people. The usual meaning of ki is “because,” but this makes no sense in this context. Therefore Rabbi Marinus renders it “although,” similar to the usage in Tehillim 41:5, “Heal my soul although (ki) I have sinned to You.” Alternatively, in both instances the meaning is, “for I acknowledge that, etc.”