תנן התם מקום שנהגו
<br>(Mnemonic: Diyash, ADYish, Kashdek, me-Odeka)<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' D == David; Y == Yishay (Jesse) ; A ==Ehaw (his brothers) ; Sh == Shemuel (Samuel) , K == kulan (all of them) ; me-Odeka == on the passage commencing Odeka, 'I will give thanks unto Thee'.');"><sup>26</sup></span> R'Samuel B'Nahmani said in R'Jonathan's name: I will give thanks unto Thee, for Thou hast answered me<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ps. CXVIII, 21.');"><sup>27</sup></span> was said by David; The stone which the builders rejected is become the chief corner-stone;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 22.');"><sup>28</sup></span> by Yishai [Jesse]; This is the Lord's doing,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 23.');"><sup>29</sup></span> by his brothers; This is the day which the Lord hath made<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 24.');"><sup>30</sup></span> by Samuel. We beseech 'Thee, O Lord, save now!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 25.');"><sup>31</sup></span> was said by his brothers: We beseech Thee, O Lord, make us now to prosper! by David; Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 26.');"><sup>32</sup></span> by Jesse; We bless you out of the house of the Lord,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 26.');"><sup>32</sup></span> by Samuel; The Lord is God, and hath given us light,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 27.');"><sup>33</sup></span> by all of them; Order the festival procession with boughs, by Samuel; Thou art my God, and I will give thanks unto Thee,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 28.');"><sup>34</sup></span> by David; Thou art my God, I will exalt Thee, by all of them. We learned elsewhere: Where it is the practice
Sefer HaChinukh
And Ramban, may his memory be blessed, answered the challenges and clarified the matter clearly, completely and nicely. And this is his language that he wrote in his commentary of the Torah: That matter which Rambam, may his memory be blessed, wrote that the commandments have explanations is something very elucidated, as in each one there is an explanation and a benefit and a refinement for a person, besides the reward for them from the Commander, may He be blessed. And they, may their memory be blessed, have already said (Sanhedrin 21b), "For why did He not reveal the explanation of the commandments, etc.?" And they, may their memory be blessed, expounded (Pesachim 119a), "'And to the clothed elegantly' (which can also be read as, 'and to the one that covers the ancient' Isaiah 23:18) - this is [referring] to the one who covers that which the Ancient of Days (God) covered. And what are they? The explanations of the Torah." And they have already expounded about the red heifer (Bemidbar Rabbah 19:6) that Shlomo said, "I have discerned everything, but the section of the red heifer, I have investigated and asked and searched - 'I said that I could fathom it, but is far from me' (Ecclesiastes 7:23)." And Rabbi Yossi Bar Chinanah said, "The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moshe, 'Go and I will reveal to you the explanation of the heifer, but to another, it will be a statute (that is not understood),' as it is written (Zechariah 14:6), 'In that day, there shall be neither sunlight nor cold moonlight' - things that are covered from you in this world, in the future you will gaze upon them in the world to come; like that blind man that becomes able to gaze, as it is written (Isaiah 42:16), 'I will lead the blind by a road they did not know.' And it is written (later in the same verse), 'I have done these words and I have not left them' - as I have already done them for Rabbi Akiva," meaning to say that Rabbi Akiva already knew them in this world.
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