[Avodah] Mood of Tehillim

[David Riceman]

kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
> It seems to me that the power of Tehilim is unrelated to the meaning of the words. Or mostly unrelated. Or something like that. It is appropriate to say certain Tehilim in certain circumstances, and certain event/psalm connections have become traditional, but we should not make too much of an effort at understanding the words of the psalm, or their connection to the event.
>   
What a disturbing idea.  In the back of my edition of Hovoth HaTalmidim 
there are three further essays by Rabbi Shapira, the second called 
"Torah, Tefillah, V'Shirah LaShem".  See the second section of that essay.

David Riceman