Midrash. While hashem was handing over the tablets the bnai yisroel built the golden calf. hashem wanted to grab them back but moshe held on and wrested them away. Thay is what the torah means when it says in the last verse of the Torah ulcho hayad hachazaka. And for all the strong arm (of Moshe).
Question is asked didn't Moshe smash the tablets anyway an act which was applauded by hashem. if so why do we praise him for insisting on obtaining the luchos only to smash them.
Ohr Gedalyahu. They lost the body of the first luchos but retained the words as hashem later says he will write the words on the second tablets as they were on the first. Now it would be much more difficult to access but they would get there es hadvarim asher hayu.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
B'shalach 5771
17-25 And Moshe said eat it today for today is shabbos to Hashem.
The people left their extra portion over on shabbos then Moshe tells them eat it. Why wouldn't they eat it? Why does he have to tell them to eat it.
Ramban says that the first reaction of people when they saw there was no mon on Shabbos was to fear that the mon had stopped. Therefore they wanted to hold onto what they had. Moshe is telling them that they must express their trust in Hashem by eating what hashem had given them. If they held on to it they would be doubting Him.
The people left their extra portion over on shabbos then Moshe tells them eat it. Why wouldn't they eat it? Why does he have to tell them to eat it.
Ramban says that the first reaction of people when they saw there was no mon on Shabbos was to fear that the mon had stopped. Therefore they wanted to hold onto what they had. Moshe is telling them that they must express their trust in Hashem by eating what hashem had given them. If they held on to it they would be doubting Him.
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