- Tehillim 1 & 2 – The Virtues of the Individual and of the Nation
- Tehillim 3 – David’s Triumphs and Tragedies Leading to Avshalom’s Rebellion
- Tehillim 4 – A Prayer of the Persecuted
- Tehillim 7 – In light of Samuel I, Chapter 24 – Evil begets Evil
- Tehillim 9 – מלחמה בעמלק – A Call for Vengeance and Vindication of Victims
- Tehillim 5 – A Prayer in the Darkness
- Tehillim 11- Faith in the Face of Evil
- Tehillim 6 – The Power Gift of Tears
- Tehillim 13-14 Struggling with Faith
- Tehillim 8 – What is the Human Being? A Little Less than the Angels
- Tehillim 1 and 15 – Ashrei
- Tehillim 17 – The Confessional Prayer of the Guilt-Ridden
- Tehillim 10 – A Lamentation for a Corrupt World
- Tehillim 18 – Song of the Rescued
- Tehillim 20 – In Times of Trouble – A Prayer for Victory
- Tehillim 21 – Coronation Anthem: The Idealized King
- Tehillim 12- The Perilous Power of Perverting Language
- Tehillim 22 – Ayelet HaShachar
- Tehillim 23 – For You are With Me – In Life and In Death
- Tehillim 25 – Mizmorei Teshuva
- Tehillim 26 – Dare We Be Judged
- Tehillim 28 – מחלוקת – David’s Prayer in the Eye of the Storm
- Tehillim 29 – Voice of G-d in the Storm
- Tehillim 31 – David Flees from His Enemies
- Tehillim 19 – The Illumination of the Sun and of the Torah
- Tehillim 32 – אשרי נשוי פשע -Confession of the Baal Teshuva
- Tehillim 34 – Hashem Is Close to the Persecuted
- Tehillim 35 – A Song in the Face of Eternal Hatred and Persecution
- Tehillim 37 – The Righteous Inherit the Earth
- Tehillim 38 – The Agony and Loneliness of Dying
- Tehillim 24 – מלך הכבוד
- Tehillim 40 – You Lifted Me Up – Expressions of Gratitude
- Tehillim 41 – Bikur Cholim and the Terminally Ill
- Tehillim 44 – Foreseeing the Galut Calamities
- Tehillim 46 – ה’ צבא-ות עמנו – Even in Political Upheaval and Natural Disasters
- Tehillim 47 – Coronating the King of Kings – A Universal Mission
- Tehillim 30 – למען יזמרך כבוד ולא ידום – Reviving – A Song for Chanuka
- Tehillim 48 – Jerusalem: The Eternal City
- Tehillim 50 – Divine Judgment: A Mockery of Hypocrisy
- Tehillim 51 – David Confesses
- Tehillim 33 – An Anonymous Song – Natural Law vs. Miracles
- Tehillim 52 – Who is Doeg HaEdomi? – Tehilllim 52 in light of the Book of Shmuel
- Tehillim 55 – Absalom and David – Betrayal
- Tehillim 56 – Michtam: A Prayer for the Persecuted
- Tehillim 36 – Evil Flourishes When Language is Perverted
- Tehillim 57 – Shaul’s Persecution of David
- Tehillim 59 – Michtam – David on the Run
- Tehillim 60 – A Soldier’s Plea: At the Brink of Disaster
- Tehillim 61 – The Fugitive and the Victor
- Tehillim 39 – The Silent Cry of the Suffering Mortal
- Tehillim 62 -אך דומיה נפשי
- Tehillim 66 – Menashe the Evil (King of Judea) as a Repentant
- Tehillim 42 – 43 One Song
- Tehillim 71 – David’s Life – A Paradigm for a Nation Reborn
- Tehillim 72 – The Benevolent King: David’s Charge to Shlomo – לב שומע
- Tehillim 74 – Witness to the Churban
- Tehillim 77 – The Hidden Hand of G-d
- Tehillim 45
- Tehillim 79 – נקמת דם עבדיך השפוך
- Tehillim 80 – Assaf the Psalmist Prophet: Siege of Jerusalem – Past is Prologue
- Tehillim 81 – Rejoicing on the Somber Day of Judgment
- Tehillim 49 – Contemplating Death
- Tehillim 82 – The Divine Charge to Judges
- Tehillim 84 – A Homeless People After the Churban
- Tehillim 88 – Facing Deathly Suffering – A Metaphor
- Tehillim 89 – Chesed and Emet -The Eternal Covenant
- Psalms 53 and 14 – Comparison of Unidentical Twins
- Tehillim 83 – אל דמי לך – A Prayer for Times of War
- Tehillim 54 – Betrayal By One’s Kinsmen
- Tehillim 92 – ‘טוב להודות לה – Structure and Mystical Meaning
- Tehillim 94 – Struggling with Evil and Injustice
- Tehillim 101 – The Tenets of a Benevolent Ruler
- Psalm 58 – Epigram Poem
- Tehillim 102 – תפילה לעני – A Nation Reborn from the Ashes
- Tehillim 105 – ושבועתו לישחק – The Exodus as a Promise to the Patriarchs
- Tehillim 106 – A Historic Retrospective from Galut
- Tehillim 107 – They Cried Out in Their Troubles – the Gratitude of the Redeemed
- Tehillim 108 – Awakening the Dawn: A Montage Foretelling the Future
- Tehillim 61 – Promises Made and Kept – A Prayer for an Aging King.mp3
- Tehillim 63 – My Soul Thirsts for You
- Tehillim 111-112 – Twin Psalms: Two Sides of a Coin: G-d and the Tzaddik
- Tehillim 65 – In Praise of Silence
- Tehillim 113 – יהי שם ה’ מבורך- Convocation or Evocation
- Tehillim 64 – Living in Fear of Ever-Increasing Slander
- Tehillim 115 – Hallel: Praise of the Living
- Tehillim 118 – מן המיצר – The Survivor’s Celebration
- Tehillim 69 – Drowning in Diaspora
- Tehillim 67 – The Menorah – A National and Universal Symbol.mp3
- Tehillim 120 & 124 – Song of Ascents
- Tehillim 121- I Lift My Eyes
- Tehillim 122 & 125 – Memories of Jerusalem
- Tehillim 70 – A Cry for Help – לעזרתי חושה
- Tehillim 126 – From Galut to Geula
- Tehillim 132 – The Divine Promise to the Davidic Dynasty
- Tehillim 137 – On the Rivers of Babylon
- Tehillim 76 – In the Wake of the Assyrian Siege
- Tehillim 143 – Rising Above the Pain and Anger
- Tehillim 78 Part I – The Lessons of History
- Tehillim 78 – Part II – The Perils of Ignoring History
- Tehillim 144 – War and Peace
- Tehillim 73 – The Little Job – צדיק ורע לו – The Suffering of the Innocent
- Tehillim 75 – Echoes of Shirat Chana (Shmuel I, Chapter 2)
- Psalm 112 – במצוותיו חפץ מאד – The Legacy of the Righteous
- Tehillim 116 – חנון ה׳ – Out of the Clutches of Death
- Tehillim 117 – A bridge to Psalm 118 – Universal or Nationalistic Praise
- Tehillim 123 – כשפחה על יד גבירתה – The Handmaiden near her Mistress
- Tehillim 87 – Zion and Jerusalem – Geography or Ideals
- Tehillim 85 – Shivat Zion – Then and Now
- Tehillim 86 – Begging for Forgiveness
- Tehillim 90 – תפילה למשה – The Eternal Human Soul in a Frail Body
- Tehillim 91 – יושב בסתר עליון – Under G-d’s Wing.mp3
- Tehillim 93 – The Image of Crashing Waves Parallels in Tanakh
- Tehillim 95 – לכו נרננה- Opening Kabbalat Shabbat
- Tehillim 96 – A New Song for the Holy Nation
- Tehillim 97 – The Fiery Battle Between Good and Evil
- Tehillim 98 – Universal Celebration of Divine Revelation
- Tehillim 99- Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh – Hashem’s Kingdom in Zion
- Tehillim 100 – A Song of Thanksgiving
- Tehillim 110 – My Lord, the King
- Tehillim 127 – The Gift of Children
- Tehillim 129 – We Have Prevailed
- Tehillim 131 – לא גבה לבי – The Humility of the Heroic Simple Jew
- Tehillim 138-Chesed v’Emet
- Tehillim 141 – Between a Rock and A Hard Place – Navigating the Moral Minefield
- Tehillim 103 and the 13 Midot of Chesed
- Tehillim 104 – ברכי נפשי
- Tehillim 109 – The Curses of the Persecuted
- Tehillim 114 – בימים ההם בזמן הזה – The Past as an Omen of the Future
- Tehillim 128 – A Life Well-Lived
- Tehillim 133 – Brotherhood without Rivalry
- Tehillim 134 and 135 – The Linkage between Psalm 134 and 135 – The End of Shir HaMaalot – A Sequel to Hallel
- Tehillim 136 – Hashem’s Love is Eternal and Universal
- Tehillim 139 – G-d’s Servant – Predetermined or Free to Choose
- Tehillim 140 – Condemnation of the Cruel Persecutor
- Tehillim 145 – תהילה לדוד – G-d’s Goodness
- Tehillim 146 – אל תבטחו בנדיבים
- Tehillim 147 – Hashem knows the names of all the Stars
- Tehillim 148 – A Symphony – Harmonizing Heaven and Earth
- Tehillim 149-150 – A Symphony of Praise at the Final Redemption
- Destruction and Exile – Reflected in Tehillim
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