[Avodah] tehillin

[Arie Folger]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Lisa Liel <lisa at starways.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

Good point. ... Except that some would say that Mizmorei Tehillim were
at times edited by later generations of Ba'alei Tehillim.

Radak says exactly that about the psalms attributed to Moshe: they
were originally written by Moshe, and David edited them.

If we accept Rav and Rabbi Yochanan's view in Kohelet Rabba (and ShS
Rabba) that Ezra was the final editor of Psalms, then there is no
reason not to have him transpose Asaf's original psalm of elegy on the
destruction of Shilo onto the destruction of Yerushalayim.

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