yrva How to be emulated

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yrva How to be emulated

• God blesses individuals or groups directly or
  through an agent (such as a priest)
• ashre does not bring about a blessing, but is an
  observation made about a person who is blessed
• ashre is reserved for humans, not plants,
  animals, or God

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• Psalm 1
• (1) How to be emulated is the person
• who has not walked in the advice of the wicked,
• nor stood in the way of sinners,
• nor sat in the session of the arrogant scoffers.
• (2) But in the instruction or revelation of
  Yahweh is her delight
• In this Torah she meditates day and night
• (3) This enviable person is like a tree
  transplanted by
• irrigation canals,
• which produces its fruit at its expected time
• its leaves do not wither,
• and all-it-puts-forth prospers.

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• (4) Not like this are the wicked
• But they are like the chaff which the wind
  drives away
• (5) Thus the wicked have no standing in the place
  of judgment
• nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous
• (6) For Yahweh knows/cares for/embraces/elects
• the way of the righteous
• while the way of the wicked perishes.

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Structure of Psalm 1

• 1-3 describe the righteous, without calling them
  righteous
• v 1 negative v 2 positive v 3 simile with three
  comparisons with a tree
• 4-5 describe the wicked
• v 4 simile with one comparison with chaff
• v 5 negative
• 6 opposite fates of righteous and wicked
• righteous dependent wicked autonomous

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Structure of Psalm 1

• 1-3 Righteous
• 4-5 Wicked
• 6a Righteous
• 6b Wicked

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Structure (continued)

• 1 Negative description of righteous
• 2 Positive description of righteous
• 3 Positive simile about righteous
• 4 Positive simile about wicked
• 5 Negative description of wicked
• 6 a Positive fate of righteous
• 6b Negative fate of wicked