#751: Tachanun (Part 21)

we're up to the expression david says the voice of my cries and we asked last night we asked last time why is it in past tense he heard as if hashem has already responded we pivot david a moment ago is describing His suffering, his pain, his anguish.

And then all of a sudden, just on a dime, he pivots.

Hashem heard me.

Hashem heard me.

So the Radak has two explanations.

The Sefer Hanilo Zeddi brings us all down.

The Radak has two explanations.

Either Omar Cain, he said this, when he recovered from his illness.

So even though in the Kepita Tehillim it sounds like it pivoted in a dime, but chronologically David HaMelech had healed from his illness, a long drawn-out illness, and so he can confidently and conclusively say, the cries, the sound of my cries.

Or, Or says the Radak, Adayin hayab b'chol yav, medaber la'aseh b'ruch ha'kodesh.

The Avraham Enoch had a certain divine inspiration, and he was saying this so confidently, he was saying it in an anticipating way, that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is going to heal him, so he presents it as if he's already healed, kishamah, past tense, Hashem heard my cries, even though he's still in the midst.

He's still suffering, but he knows, Baruch HaKodesh, that Hashem is going to heal him.

The Me'iri says similarly on Pesach later in Telem, Baruch Hashem, Ki Shema Kol Tach Hanunay, that David HaMelech, because he's so confident, Loro B'tchono, he has such confidence in Hashem, he speaks about what will be as if it is what was.

Okay, Radak has yet another interpretation, and that is, That David HaMelech can say this nusach, this language, Hashem heard me even before he's healed, because When a person davens with a broken heart, that tefillah, that prayer, that connection, is as if it's already heard and answered.

Answered doesn't mean we always get what we want.

It's not always a yes, sometimes it's a no.

But the connection, which is the ultimate result of tefillah, that comes when a person davens with a broken heart.