Ayelet Hashachar

Ayelet Hashachar may refer to a type of instrument or to the morning star.

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and R. Hiya commenced with the text, “For the Chief Musician, set to Ayeleth Hashahar, a psalm of David” (Ps. 22, 1). ‘ “Ayeleth Hashahar (lit. hind of the morning)” ‘, he said, ‘is the Community of Israel, who is called “a loving hind and a pleasant doe” (Prov. 5, 19). Is she then a hind of the morning only and not of all the day? What it means, however, is a hind from that place which is called ” dawn”, of which it says, “his going forth is as sure as the morning” (Hos. 6, 3).

Zohar, Vayikra 54:367

He then discoursed on the verse: To the musician. Upon the hind of the morning. A song of David (Ps. XXII, I). ‘When the face of the east lightens’, he said, ‘and the darkness of the night is dispersed, an angel appears in the east, and from the south he draws a thread of light, and then the sun comes forth and, throwing open the casements of the sky, illumines the world.

Zohar, Shemot 15:160

Midrash Tehillim 22:8-9

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