As we go through pesukim from Perek Shira, we are now in the
pasuk that the wellsprings sing. A wellspring is an
underground source of water, or well that gives forth water. It's nice and
clean. And what do they say?
מַעְיָנוֹת אוֹמְרִים. וְשָׁרִים כְּחֹלְלִים כָּל מַעְיָנַי
בָּךְ: (תהילים פז ז)
Those that sing and those that dance, all my wellsprings are to You.
The Radak on Tehilim says, Kol
Mayannai/all my wellsprings means the wellsprings of my heart- My heart
will be like a wellspring that will give forth these songs.
So we're comparing our hearts to a wellspring. A wellspring is deep
underground, and it comes out and gives forth water. The Zohar tells us, quoted by the Sefer Shev
Shematatta in his introduction, that a person is born into this world, and
he is a Bor/a pit, an empty hole that you put water into from the
outside. He receives from his teachers and his educators and his parents.
Then he goes on to be a Be'er.
A Be'er is a well, that you have to go down and draw water from.
And finally, there is a Maayan a wellspring, which really
shoots out the water. It's a different nature than just a plain old well. A wellspring
gives forth water. It's never ending, and ever flowing. Like the Mishna
in Pirkei Avot, when it describes
the students of Rabbi Yochanan and Ben Zakai, it calls Rav Elazar ben Arach a Ma'ayan Hamitgaber, an overflowing
wellspring, giving over his Torah, with tremendous hidushim, constantly coming up with
new ideas. That's a Maayan. And his good trait is a Lev Tov/a good
heart. Because our heart is like a wellspring. We have
to turn our heart from a pit to a well, to wellspring
which is just overflowing. That's Maayanei Libi/The wellsprings of my heart.
My heart is a source of song and a source of all kinds of goodness coming
out of my heart.
The Midrash says on this pasuk in Midrash Tehilim (perek
87,7) Rav Yehuda says, in the name of Rabi Meir, Just like the wellspring is constantly flowing new waters at all times,
so too, we are going to sing new songs. This is referring to the future
when the Jewish people will all turn into Ma'ayans. Rav Sadok Hakohen
tells us in his sefer Resiseh Layla that just like Hashem has no boundaries, there is no end to what we could fathom in Him, and therefore,
our knowledge of Him keeps on growing and growing to no end. Just that this
world is limited, so there's a limit to our
understanding. But in the future, we're going to
have a never-ending understanding of God. And with the never ending
understanding is going to come never-ending song, because the song comes from
the excitement of the new understanding. We're going to constantly be singing
new songs of new understandings, and it's going to forever be a Shir Hadash.
That's the song of the wellsprings to tell us this concept of the never-ending
songs. The wellsprings are telling us, Kol
Maayanei Bach/All of my wellsprings should be on You. I should
constantly be developing new understandings of God. And as the new
understandings come, the new songs come. Az Yashir Moshe, which is Tehiyat
HaMetim in the future, Bezrat Hashem.
