[Avodah] tehillin

[Lisa Liel]

On 7/23/2012 2:49 PM, Arie Folger wrote:
> 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?

Depends.  Was Shilo in Yerushalayim?

1 A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance; they have defiled 
Thy holy temple;
they have made Jerusalem into heaps.

Lisa