{ "language": "en", "title": "Midrash Tehillim", "versionSource": "Midrash on Psalm, Braude (23:5)", "versionTitle": "adapted to modernize", "actualLanguage": "en", "languageFamilyName": "english", "isBaseText": false, "isSource": false, "direction": "ltr", "heTitle": "מדרש תהילים", "categories": [ "Midrash", "Aggadah" ], "text": [ [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [ "\"God restores my soul\" This means that Israel said, God restores my soul with Torah, as it says, \"The Torah of Adonai is perfect, restoring the soul\" (Psalms 19:18). \"God leads me in the paths of mercy\"--this means, to manna, to quail, to waters of the well, to clouds of glory; and these are given to me not because I have earned them but \"for the sake of God's name.\" Even as I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, though I walk on the parched land of the wilderness, \"I will fear no evil for You are with me,\" as it says, \"Adonai went before them by day in a pillar of cloud (Exodus 13:21). Your rod and your staff, they comfort me: the rod is Your chastisements; the staff, Your Torah. " ] ], "sectionNames": [ "Psalm", "Comment" ] }