1)

What is "Galmud"?

1.

Rashi: It is alone, isolated from people and all creations. Malbim - since the Ma'arachah compels that a child conceived that night will not succeed 1 , they will curse Zivugim of that night, lest they lead to children who will not conceive. Man and woman should not join that night in intimacy.

2.

Ibn Ezra: It is desolate, like "Galmudah" (Yeshayah 49:21). Devar Eliyahu (8) - the roads will be desolate, for there will be no light, even from the stars.


1

Surely Iyov never heard of suffering like his. Did he think that only he was conceived that night?! Perhaps he thought that also his birth was at a time of bad Mazal, and the combination of the two caused his extreme suffering. (PF)

2)

What Renanah (singing) should not come that night?

1.

Devar Eliyahu (8): The Zohar says that the primary song is at night - it will be Batel, for no one goes in total darkness.

2.

Malbim: The singing of marriage - Chasan and Kalah.

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