#745: Tachanun (Part 15)

Tochacha, don't give me biapcha.

And yisurim, tiasreini, don't give me with chamascha.

We spoke about apcha, af, anger, the nostrils flare.

Chema, the temperature rises.

Cham, person gets heated, person gets angry.

These are human descriptions.

So his Tehillim is David HaMelech here in Tachanon.

Is this just anthropomorphism? Are we attributing human experience to the Rebona Shalolem? So the Bama explains the following.

He says, Tochacha ordinarily is about the future.

The person gives Tochacha because they're rebuking an individual.

Don't repeat your misdeeds.

Don't revisit.

Don't do again what you did wrong.

So Dalai Lama is telling the Rabboni Shalom, give me tochacha, rebuke me, inspire me, motivate me, set me on the right course in the right direction.

Help me understand what I did wrong and help me never repeat it again.

But help me not be apcha.

Let the help come like a loving father who's guiding, not through anger.

Not that the Rabboni Shalom is capable of anger, but we experience, we could experience something through the harshness of anger.

So that's tochacha.

Tochacha is rebuke for the future, and David says don't do it, Ma'abin is describing, with anger.