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Shabbat Parashat Tetzaveh| 5767
Tetzaveh | | 01/01/2006
“Also every illness and every blow that is not written in this scroll of the Torah”- this refers to the death of tzaddikim (Otzar Hamidrashim, pg. 439). Why, in fact, was this not spelled out explicitly? There is a written Torah and an Oral Torah, and the two were given in an inter-connected manner. Hashem did not throw the tablets from the Heavens. Rather, “Two tablets he [Moshe] brought down in his hand.” This is because the Oral Torah is that which gives life to the Written Torah.
“And now, Israel, what does Hashem, your G-d, ask of you, just to fear Hashem, your G-d, to go in all of his paths, and to love …” (Devarim 10:12). The gemara (Berachot 33b) asks whether fear of Hashem is really such a small thing. It answers that it was a small thing in regard to Moshe.
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