Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
אורשת; כתב עת ליהדות, לחברה ולחינוך
Angaben zur Quelle:
י (תשפא) 161-175
Keywords:
Hayyun, Joseph ben Abraham,
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Bible. Commentaries
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Rabbis History
Abstract:
This article is dedicated to the Biblical exegesis methods employed byRabbi Yosef Chayun in his writings on the Book of Psalms. He was aPortuguese rabbinic scholar and leader of Lisbon’s Jewish communityduring the 15th century. Rabbi Yosef Chayun- the Ri”ch, was thestudent of Rabbi Yitzchak Knopenton, and the teacher of DonYitzchak Abarbanel. Instead of collecting a variety of sporadicexamples from his broad range of commentaries, we will focus onPsalm 2, and thus be able to delve into its deeper understanding.The starting point of this essay is the explanation of the Ri"ch to versefour, in which he determines that both the verbs that appear in it are infact synonymous. Seemingly this is a deviation from one of the basiccharacteristics of his exegetical method- his fundamental opposition toduplication of meaning in seemingly repetitious terms.But, it has already been observed that his main focus is not thedistinction between the literal meanings of the individual words, butrather to prevent repetition in different parts of the verse. He does thisalso in this interpretation, by means of drawing a distinction betweenthe motives for both of the verbs’ actions. This "specific" distinctionwhich was used in order to solve this repetition problem, does notstand on its own as simply solving a singular difficulty, but rather isviewed as a link in a chain which supports the interrelational structurethroughout this psalm. From here we will transition to followhis various attitudes towards “Against Hashem and against hisanointed” (Psalms 2:2) as a unifying motif in the psalm.The aspiration to strive for the cohesion of the psalm brings to mindthe exegetic style of another, later commentator- the Malbim. Itappears one can compare them, not only regarding the issue of‘repetition of the matter in other words’, but also in striving to coherently plot the literary unit, a style found in the Malbim that Ihave already referred to in my previous research on him.Towards the end of this article we review the attitude of the Ri”ch tothree of the greatest commentators, whose affinity to them he declaredin the introduction to his book- Rashi, Ibn Ezra and the Radak.
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URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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