#567: Amida: Es Tzemach Dovid (Part 7)

respons family and sponsored as well by for on the 15th we're up to the words so a simple question what do the words mean speedily cause the blossoming of David your servant speedily make him blossom a horn lift with your salvation we see this over and over in s Snippets that we encounter words we say every day three times a day for our entire lives to hundreds or thousands of times we might as well know what they mean so we know what to think about when we say them so what are these words the so his horn should be elevated with your salvation whose horn why are we invoking a horn this BR is a for our longing of redemption we want mhia we want the blossoming and the flowering of the world coming to completion with mhia what are we talking about a horn for what does a horn have to do with a horn have to do with anything so one understanding of a horn and the this is based on the panum we see a correlation between a horn and David so the simple understanding the M explain when you think about a horn a horn represents the strength of the animal an animal Gores if you learn babak the animal Gores with its horn it causes damage it's a strength its aggression comes out in its horn so we're trying to DAV the that we want the Jewish people to have strength and resilience and tenacity and resolve we want to be able to defeat our enemies and Usher in the time of redemption V Carno we invoke the image of the horn the horn represents the strength of the Jewish people strength and might durability the permanence of the arrival of of Mia another understanding of why we're invoking a Karen if you think about the Karen we say in the daving of R we sayas kavid we also invoke the horn smas the kavid the kavid so why do we do that so thear M tells us that there was a fundamental difference between the way that David and schlomo were anointed and the way that sha was anointed sha first king of the Jewish people Sha's kingdom was very temporary whereas schlomo and David theirs endured so much so David is on schlomo the davidic Dynasty and the Messiah will come from David why did one endure and one didn't one lasted and one was temporary they were anointed in two different ways David and schlomo were Anointed with the Karan oil dripped from a horn a solid strong Mighty horn they were anointed they were inaugurated they were established as kings from the oil that dripped from a horn sh oil dripped out of a vessel a temporary very flimsy very fleeting vessel not a horn because it wasn't permanent it wasn't going to continue so theum is reminiscent it should invoke the image of DAV and schlomo the K and the strength of the horn and the way in which the David and schlomo were anointed should invoke this image of permanence of Might of strength that just like DAV and Mel we want mhia to be able to to be able to come another interpretation is brought down by the eight Y and others that when we talk about this is the K not of mhi B David we're not talking about the Messiah of David will bring in the permanent redemption in the world to come we're talking what precedes mhav is first the arrival of M the says inav that in the future this K is going to fall in battle which battle with this Karan mhia Ben ysf the precursor to mhia Ben David he's a leader of the Jewish people he'll be assassinated he'll be killed he'll fall in battle which battle goog we talked aled about in the eschatological era the time of Messiah go the king of mog will fight with the Jewish people R says that's what sukus is all about a little fast forward to sukus but go the king of mog is not a real people in a real name but Cesar of ver go the king of mog is gag is a roof a roof because we're fighting an enemy who think that they're independent they're proud they're strong that they are the orbiters of their own destiny they think that they can build an edifice a strong roof and that roof can protect them go the king of mog is of the philosophy and the attitude that we could take care of ourselves nothing could compromise nothing can challenge us we sit in the Suka in contrast we are the people of the Suka the people of that we sit under the shade we sit under the Divine protection and the Battle of Goog against the Jewish people which we read about is the Battle of a Jewish people who say we surrender to the hands of hasem and the nations of the world feel that they're independent and proud and mighty and strong in that battle that we hope will be worthy of not having to endure of go it's predicted mashia Y is going to be assassinated is going to die and that's our is car or the Karen of Mia Ben y the re says Freelander we're doing that in fact he shouldn't be assassinated and die he should be successful and win through our worthiness and we don't have to go through go the last interpretation the last interpretation I saw was a suggestion an animal has a horn that horn is very significant to us we're going to blow it on rashash Shana but an animal doesn't develop that horn the day it's born the animal's horns grow over time and we take the Horn of an adult animal and in fact the horn is the indicator of the animal's maturity its age its strength it's through that horn I don't know exactly how I forgot to Google it but it's through that horn studying and measur during that horn that you learn and know so much about the animal and so the horn is the symbol of our hope and our longing for Redemption mhia because mhia is going to come kimim slowly incrementally over time earning and growing just like the horn grows over time but grows strong so to we should grow and improve and get closer and closer to that great light to that Redemption to welcoming mhia