75, col. 1. (See the Morning Service for the middle days of
the Feast of Tabernacles.) God will make a banquet for the
righteous on the day when He shows His mercy to the posterity of
Isaac. After the meal the cup of blessing will be handed to
Abraham, in order that he may pronounce the blessing, but he
will plead excuse because he begat Ishmael. Then Isaac will be
told to take the cup and speak the benediction of grace, but he
also will plead his unworthiness because he begat Esau. Next
Jacob also will refuse because he married two sisters. Then
Moses, on the ground that he was unworthy to enter the land of
promise, or even to be buried in it; and finally Joshua will
plead unworthiness because he had no son. David will then be
called upon to take the cup and bless, and he will respond,
"Yea, I will bless, for I am worthy to bless, as it is said (Ps.
cxvi. 13), 'I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the
name of the Lord.'" P'sachim, fol. 119, col. 2. This cup, as we
are told above, will contain two hundred and twenty-one logs
(which the Rabbis tell us, is the twenty-fourth part of a seah,
therefore this cup will hold rather more than one-third of a
hogshead of wine).
Pages:
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324
325
326
327
328
329
330
331
332