[Avodah] Hayinu keCholmim

[Simon Montagu]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> The idiom "hayinu kecholmim" from Shir haMaalos is elusive.
>
> <snip>

> I encountered in the TY, Terumos 1:1 2b, a discussion of someone who
> r"l is sometimes shoteh sometimes lucid. The term used for healthy
> is "chalim". At the end, the gemara justifies translating the tanna
> accordingly by citing Yeshaiahah 38:17 "vesachalimeini vehachayeini".
> (Similar citation is in the TB, Mes Berakhos and Menachos 44b.)
>
> So perhaps "hayinu kecholmim" means "we will be like people recovering"?
>
>
You are mechaven here to the Targum: havina heich mar`aya de'ittasyan. I
believe I have also seen this in an English translation, but I can't
remember where.
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