A Man of Righteousness – Psalms Chapter 15 – Tehilim Poetry
It's time to return to our Tehilim Poetry series. Since we are up to Perek or Chapter 15, this is the one we are writing about. Join me, if you please. The verse that stuck out to me in this perek was the following one:"הוֹלֵ֣ךְ תָּ֭מִים וּפֹעֵ֥ל צֶ֑דֶק וְדֹבֵ֥ר אֱ֝מֶ֗ת בִּלְבָבֽוֹ" which translates to, "He who walks uprightly and works righteousness and speaks truth in his heart." These words and pretty much the rest - and the entirety - of the perek helped to develop the concept for this poem. I based the poem around the tent that David Hamelech mentions in the first verse as he asks, "Who will sojourn in Your tent, who will dwell upon Your holy mount?" I wrote about a man who would sit within this tent. Someone who is kind, who speaks no bad word against his fellow, supports and deeply respects those who study Torah and tried to incorporate every mention that David Hamelech makes about a righteous man who would sit within this holy tent of G-d. I ho...