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Feb 12, 2019 at 22:09 vote accept CommunityBot
Jan 28, 2019 at 0:11 answer added רבות מחשבות timeline score: 2
Sep 2, 2018 at 21:20 comment added WAF This article addresses both questions by positing that alphabetic thinking contributed to both its composition and its consumption. (The clear evocation of such a framework does away with the need to complete the acrostic, having achieved it sufficiently with the preponderant pattern.)
Feb 6, 2018 at 16:29 comment added DanF You may not find an answer as to why this Tehillim is alphabetical. AFAIK, the Gemarah Brachot emphasizes saying Tehilla Ledavid (#145, commonly called "Ashrei") because it is alphabetical, but they don't explain why that one, among other Tehillim are alphabetical. It was a common technique to make "songs" alphabetical probably for memorization, mainly. Why David chose #34, specifically, as one of them, may not have an explanation.
Feb 6, 2018 at 6:36 comment added user8726 @DanF Meiri says that too. Although, he may have just gotten it from Radak.
Feb 6, 2018 at 2:24 history tweeted twitter.com/StackJudaism/status/960700798232616960
Feb 6, 2018 at 0:04 comment added ezra @DanF Sounds somewhat like an answer, if you can find an explanation why that is.
Feb 5, 2018 at 22:45 comment added DanF See Rada"k on the 1st verse. The vav is included in the pasuk that has heh. Rada"k doesn't explain why this is.
Feb 5, 2018 at 22:04 history asked user8726 CC BY-SA 3.0