The Way to a Personal Redemption
You Are the Judge and the Defender
“Mizmor L’Dovid; Hashem, I call to You, hurry to [help] me, listen to my voice when I call to You” (Tehillim 141).
Dovid said: Please, Hashem, allow me to be among those who see Your Face.... What is the meaning of “hurry to me?” Just as I hurried to do Your will, please hurry to answer me.
What was this like? It was like a person brought to judgment before the king. When he saw that everyone else had people to speak in their defense, he called to the ruler and said: I beg of you, all these people have someone to speak in their defense, but I have no one. There is no one to speak on my behalf. Since you are the judge, please be my defender as well.
Dovid said: Some people can rely on their good deeds and others can rely on their fathers’ deeds. But I trust in You even though I have no good deeds. I rely on the fact that I call to You, so answer me....
(Midrash Shochar Tov, Tehillim 141)
