1)

Why does it say "Ki Ekach Mo'ed"?

1.

Rashi: When we have a Yom Tov, we do not engage in obscene talk and frivolity [like all nations].

2.

Radak: Hashem says, I will choose a time for Yisrael to leave Galus.

2)

What is the meaning of "Ani Meisharim Eshpot"?

1.

Rashi: We put to our hearts to praise You according to the event of the day.

2.

Radak: I will judge their enemies with straightness.

3.

Malbim: The verse depicts that straightness is the foundation on which the world stands. It is as if the world stands on pillars, and they are established on one base - straightness. A Midrash 1 says that the world stands on one pillar, called Tzadik. If that base (straightness) would slip, automatically the land would melt and all its inhabitants would perish (verse 4).


1

Otzar ha'Midrashim (Sheloshah v'Arba'ah, p.541) learns this from "v'Tzadik Yesod Olam" (Mishlei 10:25).

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