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[Akiva Miller via Avodah]

R' Simon Montagu asked:

> Another example in Hallel: ze hayom `asa Hashem, nagila venismha
> bo (is "bo" hayom or Hashem? Most translations seem to go for
> "hayom", but "veyyismehu becha Yisrael" in the kedushat hayom
> of 18 for regalim fits with "bo" meaning Hashem)

Hirsch (Psalms 118:24) translates "vo" as "in Him", but Radak (same verse)
explains that it means "on this day". Neither explicitly rejects the other
view.

However, the Midrash does explicitly ask if one is correct to the exclusion
of the other, and it answers clearly (and rather emphatically, in my
opinion): the correct translation is "in Him". This Medrash can be found in
the Torah Temimah on Shir Hashirim 1, #66 (which is in the back of the
Vayikra volume).

Akiva Miller
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