Psalms 1- who is the just person?
Posted by Eli Dahan on June 24, 2009 under Bible, Biblical Hebrew | 
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Introduction
When the bible wants to speak about the just person, the person who do good things to the environment, he gives us a metaphor, that’s related to one of the most important subjects today, ecology. The metaphor is a plant that has roots and fruits, a plant that has a lot of water around him, a plant that does not have any gender nor nation.
The plant
The best way to describe this plant is to look at the words of psalms 1 and to see how the plant give us the hope, that we just need the water in order to maintain and achieve the justice in the world.
Let us see some words of the psalms (1:1-4)
“אַשְׁרֵי הָאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר לֹא הָלַךְ, בַּעֲצַת רְשָׁעִים;וּבְדֶרֶךְ חַטָּאִים, לֹא עָמָד, וּבְמוֹשַׁב לֵצִים, לֹא יָשָׁב.
כִּי אִם בְּתוֹרַת יְהוָה, חֶפְצוֹ; וּבְתוֹרָתוֹ יֶהְגֶּה, יוֹמָם וָלָיְלָה. וְהָיָה כְּעֵץ, שָׁתוּל עַל-פַּלְגֵי-מָיִם:
אֲשֶׁר פִּרְיוֹ, יִתֵּן בְּעִתּוֹ–וְעָלֵהוּ לֹא-יִבּוֹל; וְכֹל אֲשֶׁר-יַעֲשֶׂה יַצְלִיחַ.
לֹא-כֵן הָרְשָׁעִים: כִּי אִם-כַּמֹּץ, אֲשֶׁר-תִּדְּפֶנּוּ רוּחַ““
“Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away”
The function of the wind
We can see that the psalmist wanted to show us what is right to do and how to behave and serve the lord, but he didn’t just write about the just. He also wrote about the unjust, the man who’s making the sins, and the function of the wind is to get rid of the unjust people, in order to make our plants with the best fruit they can get.
When god gave us the people of the world the instructions how to live he gave us the water to make the plants bloom – we should try harder to follow this, and then we can go back to the garden of eden, the best place to be with the best plants ……
main phrases of the post + transcription + translation
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Hebrew |
Transcription |
Translation |
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חוֹטֵא |
Hôtē’ |
sinner |
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צַדִּיק |
tsaddîq |
just |
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צֶמַח |
tsemah |
plant |
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רוּחַ |
rûah |
wind |
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גַּן עֵדֶן |
Gan ‘ēden |
The garden of eden |
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רָשָׁע |
Rāšā’ |
evil |
