[Avodah] tehillin

Arie Folger afolger at aishdas.org
Mon Jul 23 12:49:11 PDT 2012


RET asked:
> Another question is tehillim 79 which begins "mizmor le-asaf"
> and talks about the destruction of the Temple. The midrash
> asks why start with mizmor which indicates a song and answers
> that G-d spent his wrath on stones rather than destroying the nation.
>
> The question is why or how is Asaf writing a chapter in tehillin
> about the future destruction of the temple


Could it be that it was really about churban Shilo in the first place?

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