ותשא כל העדה ויתנו את קולם. זש"ה נתנה עלי בקולה וגו' (ירמיה יב ח), אותו קול שבכיתם גרם לכם ללקות כשונאין, ועל אותו הדור אמר ישעיה ביום נטעך תשגשגי ובבקר זרעך תפריחי נד קציר ביום נחלה וכאב אנוש (ישעי יז יא), ביום שעברתי ליתן לכם נחלת אבותיכם, נעשיתם כרוז בעולם וכאב אנוש, זו הפורענות, שנטלתם ירושה לדורות, שבכו העדה בליל תשעה באב, אמר הקב"ה אתם בכיתם בכייה של חנם, אני אקבע לכם לילה הזה בכייה לדורות, ומן אותה שעה נגזרה גזירה על בהמ"ק ליחרב, ושיגלו בני ישראל לבין האומות, שנאמר וישא ידו להם [להפיל אותם במדבר ולהפיל זרעם בגוים ולזרותם בארצות] (תהלים קו כו כז), נשיאת יד כנגד נשיאת קול.
(Numb. 14:1:) THEN THE WHOLE CONGREGATION RAISED THEIR VOICE AND CRIED (rt.: NTN); <AND THAT NIGHT THE PEOPLE WEPT.> This text is related (to Jer. 12:8): <MY HERITAGE> HAS SET (rt.: NTN) ITS VOICE AGAINST ME; <THEREFORE I HAVE HATED (rt.: SN') IT.> The very voice with which you wept caused you to be punished like enemies (rt.: SN').48Tanh., Numb. 4:12; Numb. R. 16:20, cont. Moreover, it was over this very generation that Isaiah said (in Is. 17:11): IN THE DAY YOU PLANT, YOU SEE IT FLOURISH; AND ON THE MORNING YOU SOW, YOU SEE IT BLOOM; <BUT THE> HARVEST FLEES ON A DAY OF SICKNESS (nahalah) AND HUMAN PAIN. On the day that I went to give you your ancestral inheritance (nahalah) you became a manifesto in the world. AND HUMAN PAIN refers to the divine punishment that you received as a legacy for <future> generations.49Ta‘an. 29a; yTa‘an. 4:8 (or 5) (68d); Sot. 35a. Because the congregation wept in the night of the ninth of Ab,50See Ta‘an. 4:6: FIVE <CALAMITOUS> THINGS BEFELL OUR ANCESTORS ON THE SEVENTEENTH OF TAMMUZ AND FIVE ON THE NINTH OF AB…. ON THE NINTH OF AB IT WAS DECREED AGAINST OUR ANCESTORS THAT THEY SHOULD NOT ENTER THE LAND, THE TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED THE FIRST TIME AND THE SECOND TIME, BETHAR (THE CENTER OF THE BAR COCHBA REVOLT) WAS TAKEN, AND THE CITY <OF JERUSALEM> WAS PLOWED UNDER (after this revolt, but cf. Ta‘an. 29a). the Holy One has said: You have wept for nothing. I shall establish this night for you as <a night of> a weeping for <future> generations, and from that hour a decree on the Temple was ordained for it to be destroyed and that the children of Israel would go in exile among the nations. It is so stated (in Ps. 106:26–27): SO HE RAISED HIS HAND TOWARD THEM <IN AN OATH>, [TO MAKE THEM FALL IN THE WILDERNESS AND TO MAKE THEIR SEED FALL AMONG THE GENTILES, EVEN TO SCATTER THEM AMONG THE LANDS]. The raising of <the divine> hand was corresponding to the lifting up of the voice (in Numb. 14:1).
ותשא כל העדה ויתנו את קולם. זש"ה נתנה עלי בקולה וגו' (ירמיה יב ח), אותו קול שבכיתם גרם לכם ללקות כשונאין, ועל אותו הדור אמר ישעיה ביום נטעך תשגשגי ובבקר זרעך תפריחי נד קציר ביום נחלה וכאב אנוש (ישעי יז יא), ביום שעברתי ליתן לכם נחלת אבותיכם, נעשיתם כרוז בעולם וכאב אנוש, זו הפורענות, שנטלתם ירושה לדורות, שבכו העדה בליל תשעה באב, אמר הקב"ה אתם בכיתם בכייה של חנם, אני אקבע לכם לילה הזה בכייה לדורות, ומן אותה שעה נגזרה גזירה על בהמ"ק ליחרב, ושיגלו בני ישראל לבין האומות, שנאמר וישא ידו להם [להפיל אותם במדבר ולהפיל זרעם בגוים ולזרותם בארצות] (תהלים קו כו כז), נשיאת יד כנגד נשיאת קול.
(Numb. 14:1:) THEN THE WHOLE CONGREGATION RAISED THEIR VOICE AND CRIED (rt.: NTN); <AND THAT NIGHT THE PEOPLE WEPT.> This text is related (to Jer. 12:8): <MY HERITAGE> HAS SET (rt.: NTN) ITS VOICE AGAINST ME; <THEREFORE I HAVE HATED (rt.: SN') IT.> The very voice with which you wept caused you to be punished like enemies (rt.: SN').48Tanh., Numb. 4:12; Numb. R. 16:20, cont. Moreover, it was over this very generation that Isaiah said (in Is. 17:11): IN THE DAY YOU PLANT, YOU SEE IT FLOURISH; AND ON THE MORNING YOU SOW, YOU SEE IT BLOOM; <BUT THE> HARVEST FLEES ON A DAY OF SICKNESS (nahalah) AND HUMAN PAIN. On the day that I went to give you your ancestral inheritance (nahalah) you became a manifesto in the world. AND HUMAN PAIN refers to the divine punishment that you received as a legacy for <future> generations.49Ta‘an. 29a; yTa‘an. 4:8 (or 5) (68d); Sot. 35a. Because the congregation wept in the night of the ninth of Ab,50See Ta‘an. 4:6: FIVE <CALAMITOUS> THINGS BEFELL OUR ANCESTORS ON THE SEVENTEENTH OF TAMMUZ AND FIVE ON THE NINTH OF AB…. ON THE NINTH OF AB IT WAS DECREED AGAINST OUR ANCESTORS THAT THEY SHOULD NOT ENTER THE LAND, THE TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED THE FIRST TIME AND THE SECOND TIME, BETHAR (THE CENTER OF THE BAR COCHBA REVOLT) WAS TAKEN, AND THE CITY <OF JERUSALEM> WAS PLOWED UNDER (after this revolt, but cf. Ta‘an. 29a). the Holy One has said: You have wept for nothing. I shall establish this night for you as <a night of> a weeping for <future> generations, and from that hour a decree on the Temple was ordained for it to be destroyed and that the children of Israel would go in exile among the nations. It is so stated (in Ps. 106:26–27): SO HE RAISED HIS HAND TOWARD THEM <IN AN OATH>, [TO MAKE THEM FALL IN THE WILDERNESS AND TO MAKE THEIR SEED FALL AMONG THE GENTILES, EVEN TO SCATTER THEM AMONG THE LANDS]. The raising of <the divine> hand was corresponding to the lifting up of the voice (in Numb. 14:1).