[Avodah] Music of the Mikdash [was: Local, Non-Global or Global Flood]

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:52:32PM -0500, T613K at aol.com wrote:
:> "Alei asor" (pasuq 4) is a messianic reference, as the asor  wasn't played
:> in bayis rishon or sheini.

: How do you know that?  I don't think that's right.

The source is a beraisa by R' Yehudah in Eiruchin 13b. The kinor had 7
strings, but in yemos hamashiach it will have an 8th and in olam haba --
10. The meqoros are "Alei asor va'lei neivel, alei higayon bekhinor"
and "Hodu Lashem bekhinor, benevel asor..." -- that is the new element
of that pasuq's "shir chadash".

So you're right that I was mistaken -- it's not messianic, but even
further in the future.

(And so it is quite likely that peshat in the opening pasuq is that the
shir is about the Yom shekulo shabbos.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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