{"id":47730,"date":"2019-01-19T18:32:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T16:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=47730"},"modified":"2022-08-14T14:57:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T11:57:25","slug":"miriam-and-aaron-take-their-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/miriam-and-aaron-take-their-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Miriam And Aaron Take Their Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We may have expected Moses, as the youngest of three siblings, to outlive his brother and sister, but it still comes as something of a surprise to have them both die in the same chapter.<\/span><\/p>\n

First to expire was Miriam, whose demise is followed\u2014immediately\u2014by a report of great thirst, the proximity of the two accounts summoning the midrashic observation (cited by Rashi on v. 2) that her presence invited the company of a well whose water sustained the people in the wilderness until her death.<\/span><\/p>\n

Its disappearance forced a confrontation between the people and their two remaining leaders that was intended to be resolved through the expedient of speaking to a flint rock (<\/span>tzur<\/span><\/em>) and producing water. After addressing the people as \u201crebels\u201d (<\/span>morim<\/span><\/em>), Moses struck the rock twice with his staff and the water flowed, leading God to inform him that he and Aaron had thus somehow forfeited their opportunity to enter the Promised Land.<\/span><\/p>\n

The question of just which aspect of their response was criminal\u2014insulting the people or striking the rock, rather than speaking to it, as Rashi claims\u2014has occupied exegetes for a millennium. Most notable in this regard are the comments of Shmuel David Luzzatto (SHADAL; Italy, 1800-1865) who observed, wryly, that he was initially reluctant to comment on this episode since he had discovered that Moses had not committed a single sin, but thirteen\u2014as many as there were exegetes who attempted to identify it. Of course, having stipulated that, Luzzatto proceeded to offer his own interpretation, justifying it, perhaps, by noting that it was not so much novel as a variation on the theme struck by Rashi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thereafter, follows an interlude in which a large part of recent Israelite history is recapitulated in a vain attempt to secure permission from the Edomites to cross their territory. It is at this juncture that Aaron, too, dies, and is buried atop a mountain called Hor.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is noteworthy that the address to the Edomites begins with \u201cThus says your <\/span>brother<\/span><\/i> Jacob\u201d (v. 14), inviting the speculation that the poor fraternal association between Israel and its brother is being placed in deliberate contrast to the positive relations between Moses and Aaron.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":49511,"id":49511,"title":"Dt3-The_Death_of_Moses","filename":"Dt3-The_Death_of_Moses.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt3-The_Death_of_Moses.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/what-can-we-learn-from-gods-stern-refusal-to-moses\/dt3-the_death_of_moses\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"dt3-the_death_of_moses","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":49510,"date":"2019-02-15 05:24:03","modified":"2022-09-06 17:47:27","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":524,"height":600,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt3-The_Death_of_Moses-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt3-The_Death_of_Moses-262x300.jpg","medium-width":262,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt3-The_Death_of_Moses.jpg","medium_large-width":524,"medium_large-height":600,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt3-The_Death_of_Moses.jpg","large-width":524,"large-height":600,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt3-The_Death_of_Moses.jpg","1536x1536-width":524,"1536x1536-height":600,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt3-The_Death_of_Moses.jpg","2048x2048-width":524,"2048x2048-height":600,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt3-The_Death_of_Moses.jpg","post_full_size-width":524,"post_full_size-height":600,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt3-The_Death_of_Moses-367x420.jpg","home_baner-width":367,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"Miriam And Aaron Take Their Leave","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"And Moses\u2019 demise is foretold as well - 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