Rashi on TanakhPsalms 103

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Read Psalms 103 in the Bible

Psalms 103:1

My soul, bless There are five mentions of “My soul, bless” here, corresponding to the five worlds in which man lives, as our Sages said in Tractate Berachoth (10a): “He lived in his mother’s womb, he sucked his mother’s breasts, and so all of them.”

Psalms 103:5

that your youth renews itself like the eagle Like this eagle, which renews its wings and feathers from year to year. There is a Midrash Aggadah about a kind of eagle that returns to its youth when it becomes old.

Psalms 103:7

He makes His ways known He makes His ways known to Moses.

Psalms 103:14

He remembers that we are dust He remembers and has not forgotten that we are dust and He knows that: “As for manhis days, etc.”

Psalms 103:16

For a wind passes over him If mortal illness passes over him.

Psalms 103:22

Bless the Lord, all His works who are in all the places of His dominion.

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