“You have voluntarily scattered a torrent of rain, O God, you have established Your inheritance for Your weary people.” (Tehilim, 68:10; see S. R. Hirsh’s translation, “Thou didst lavish a torrent of bounty, O God; Thou didst first prepare Thy inheritance, a [people] weary of their fate.”) “You have voluntarily scattered a torrent of rain, O God” is the strength that God gives Israel to withstand all they must suffer from the nations. This is, “Your inheritance for Your weary people,” means that Israel’s ability to suffer and remain silent comes from the tekifut (holy, brazen strength), which comes from knowing that surely God will not forsake them, and it is all good for them, yet still they are weary. Thus it says, “You have established,” for they may take some consolation from the fact that God had established all they are enduring in order that all the good of the nations may then be brought into Israel in a state of Kedusha (holiness).*Exile refines and purifies them so that they can elevate and enjoy the fallen good found among the nations in a holy manner. [Hagahot Peretz]
גֶּשֶׁם נְדָבוֹת תָּנִיף אֱלֹקִים נַחֲלָתְךָ וְנִלְאָה אַתָּה כוֹנַנְתָּהּ. "גֶּשֶׁם נְדָבוֹת תָּנִיף אֱלֹקִים" הַיְינוּ שֶׁהַש"י נוֹתֵן כֹּחַ לְיִשְׂרָאֵל לִסְבּוֹל כָּל מַה שֶּׁיַּעֲבוֹר עֲלֵיהֶם מֵהָאֻמּוֹת, וְזֶהוּ "נַחֲלָתְךָ וְנִלְאָה" הַיְינוּ כָּל מַה שֶּׁיִּשְׂרָאֵל סוֹבְלִין וְשׁוֹתְקִין הוּא מִגּוֹדֶל תַּקּוּפוּתָם מֵחֲמַת שֶׁיָּדוּעַ לָהֶם כִּי בֶּטַח לֹא תַעַזְבֵם וּמִסְּתָמָא הוּא לְטוֹב לָהֶם אַךְ שֶׁהֵם נִלְאִים, וְזֶהוּ "אַתָּה כּוֹנַנְתָּהּ" הַיְינוּ שֶׁבָּזֶה יִתְנַחֲמוּ שֶׁהַש"י כּוֹנֵן, בִּכְדֵי שֶׁכָּל הַטּוֹבוֹת שֶׁל הָאֻמּוֹת יָבוֹאוּ לְיִשְׂרָאֵל בִּקְדֻשָּׁה.
“You have voluntarily scattered a torrent of rain, O God, you have established Your inheritance for Your weary people.” (Tehilim, 68:10; see S. R. Hirsh’s translation, “Thou didst lavish a torrent of bounty, O God; Thou didst first prepare Thy inheritance, a [people] weary of their fate.”)
“You have voluntarily scattered a torrent of rain, O God” is the strength that God gives Israel to withstand all they must suffer from the nations. This is, “Your inheritance for Your weary people,” means that Israel’s ability to suffer and remain silent comes from the tekifut (holy, brazen strength), which comes from knowing that surely God will not forsake them, and it is all good for them, yet still they are weary. Thus it says, “You have established,” for they may take some consolation from the fact that God had established all they are enduring in order that all the good of the nations may then be brought into Israel in a state of Kedusha (holiness).*Exile refines and purifies them so that they can elevate and enjoy the fallen good found among the nations in a holy manner. [Hagahot Peretz]