Kavanot: Sefer Tehillim

תיקוני זהר has a different list of the ten מאמרות של שבח in תיקון יג, corresponding to the ten ספירות. Our text is missing the tenth, but (according to the commentary in Ashlag’s HaSulam) it is printed in זהר חדש קכח,ב. As summarized by דניאל פריש:

I really want to pair שיר and מזמור with each other, and I would associate ברכה with חסד, so לולא דמסתפינא I would put the order as:

Nine perakim have no מאמר של שבח in this model: כה,‎ כו,‎ כז,‎ כח,‎ לה,‎ לז,‎ קלח and קמד are simply לדוד, and עב is just לשלמה.‎ תהילים קלז I would classify as a בכי (it really doesn’t fit with the rest of ספר תהילים). There are two other apparent מאמרות של שבח that are not in this model: מכתם (which appears by itself in טז) and משכיל (which appears by itself in לב,‎ עד,‎ עח and פט). Usually these are in combination with other forms, but I don’t know how to fit them into this model when they are on their own. Probably consider מכתם and משכיל as descriptions like the instruments, and those perakim as simply לדוד or לאסף or לאיתן psalms.

Perakim צג,‎ צד,‎ צז and צט have no מאמר של שבח but they are attributed to Moshe, so I would not put them into this model. קיד through קיז have no כותרת, and I would consider them all part of the sequence of הלל that starts with קיג. Perakim ב,‎ י,‎ מג and עא have no כותרת, and I would similarly consider each of them the second half of the previous perek.

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