{"id":99056,"date":"2022-11-20T05:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99056"},"modified":"2022-11-20T05:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:23:04","slug":"divine-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/divine-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDo not cast me away from before You, and do not remove Your Holy Spirit from me\u201d<\/em><\/strong> (Tehillim <\/em>51:13)<\/p>\n

Rashi writes: Your Divine Spirit should not be far from me.<\/p>\n

The Radak<\/em> says that David was referring to Divine inspiration, which he possessed, as the pasuk states (Shmuel<\/em> II, 23:2), \u201cThe spirit of Hashem spoke through me; His word is upon my tongue.\u201d With this spirit, David said the verses of Tehillim<\/em>, as was explained at the beginning of the sefer. But after he sinned, the Divine Spirit left him, and he pleaded for its return.<\/p>\n

In the beginning, Hashem\u2019s secret was revealed to those who fear Him, as the pasuk says (Tehillim<\/em> 25:14), \u201cThe secret of Hashem is to those who fear Him.\u201d He then gave it to the upright, as the pasuk says (Mishlei<\/em> 3:32), \u201cHis counsel is with the upright.\u201d He then gave it to the prophets, as it says (Amos<\/em> 3:7), \u201cFor the L-rd\u2026 will not do anything unless He has revealed His secret to His servants the prophets.\u201d Whatever the tzaddikim did, they did through Divine inspiration (Tanchuma<\/em>, Vayechi<\/em> 14).<\/p>\n

One who makes himself like a beast of burden to carry the yoke of Torah merits that the Divine Spirit immediately rests upon him (Tanna d\u2019Vei Eliyahu<\/em> 2:7).<\/p>\n

It says (Kohelet<\/em> 8:15), \u201cSo I praised enjoyment.\u201d This refers to enjoyment in doing a mitzvah. Yet the pasuk (ibid. 2:2) \u201cI said of joy, \u2018What does it accomplish?\u2019\u201d refers to joy unrelated to a mitzvah. From here we learn that the Shechinah<\/em> does not rest upon a person through sadness or laziness, through mockery, light-headedness, or idle words. The Shechinah <\/em>rests upon a person only through the joy of doing mitzvot, as Shaul Hamelech requested (Melachim<\/em> II, 3:15), \u201c\u2018And now, bring me a musician.\u2019 It happened that as the musician played, the hand of Hashem came upon him\u201d (Shabbat <\/em>30b).<\/p>\n

Although Avraham did not hear the angel\u2019s order that he should name his son Yishmael, he had Divine inspiration to call him Yishmael (Rashi<\/em>, Bereishit<\/em> 16:15).<\/p>\n

The psalms of Tehillim <\/em>beginning with the words Mizmor L\u2019David<\/em> were said after David would play music to invite the Shechinah<\/em> upon himself. The ones which start with the words L\u2019David Mizmor<\/em> were said after the Shechinah<\/em> rested upon him (Rashi<\/em>, Tehillim <\/em>23).<\/p>\n

Rashi (Iyov<\/em> 4:12) offers a parable: A king had a wife and a concubine. When he was together with his wife, it was in an open and revealed manner. But when he was with his concubine, it was in a hidden, secretive way. Similarly, Hashem revealed Himself to the prophets of the nations in a concealed manner. We find this regarding Avimelech and Lavan, Bilaam and Elifaz. But concerning the Jewish prophets, He spoke to them face to face, in a clear way.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDo not cast me away from before You, and do not remove Your Holy Spirit from me\u201d (Tehillim 51:13) Rashi writes: Your Divine Spirit should not be far from me. The Radak says that David was referring to Divine inspiration, which he possessed, as the pasuk states (Shmuel II, 23:2), \u201cThe spirit of Hashem spoke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":25642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-divine-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}