[Avodah] Mood of Tehillim

[Micha Berger]

When r"l we need to say tehillim, the tune is usually a sad one. Things
aren't going well for some choleh or in the matzav, and we are pleeing
with HQBH.

Is this really correct? (And among Chassidim, is this historically
accurate?)

Perhaps when one reads "Hashem, shimah beqoli". But what about something
like "Eileh barekhev"? Isn't the point of the pasuq that David haMelekh
got security from knowing Who is the Magen David? And why are we crying
when we recall the unity of Kelal Yisrael whose paragon was Moshe's joy
when annointing Aharon in "Hinei mah tov"?

Much of the Tehillim we recite be'eis tzarah (yehi Ratzon that I should
have written "recited") appear to be words of strength and comfort,
not baqashah.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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