Summary: Part of a series focusing on the Vilna Gaon's interpretation of
trup, this one focuses on the pasuk in Re'eh,
'asser te'asser, and works the
trup into the famous
derasha on those words.
Post: In
parashat Reeh, in Devarim 14:22, we see the command to tithe. And the second word of that
pasuk, namely
te'asser, has the
trup of
zakef-katon. And the Vilna Gaon relates the
trup to a famous
derasha upon this pasuk. In
Kol Eliyahu, he writes:
In the verse "'asser te'asser `et kol tevu`at zar'echa, etc.," behold the melody upon the word te'asser is a zakef-katon. There is to say that it comes to hint to that which is in the gemara in masechet Shabbos (daf 119), "tithe {'asser} so that you become wealthy {tit'asher}". Therefore the trup of zakef-katon comes to hint on the making upright of the level, from smallness to greatness.
I have nothing to add to this one.
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