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Shabbos 87a

Naaseh V'Nishma: Why the Torah Repeats Moshe's Report

Part of Ein Yaakov · 2:16

A sugya noticing that the Torah twice describes Moshe bringing the people's words back to Hashem, and what that repetition teaches about the exchange leading up to naaseh v'nishma at Har Sinai.

Audio Transcript
Opening physical instructions

Where? What are we doing? Right here on the bottom. Let's close the ארון. Close the פרוכת, then you can work on No, not the wood. Open the wood and go under. That's a crazy way to make. You can't open the drawer in the bottom unless you open the ארון קודש. Doors should have been split in half. Okay. Tanya, it's taking a braisa over there. וישב משה את דברי העם אל ה׳. It says Moshe brought back after the Yidden said נעשה ונשמע. It says Moshe went back to the Eibershter and gave him over. Ksiv, then it says, ויגד משה את דברי העם אל ה׳. Moshe said the words of of the עם to Hashem. So in between it says something that Moshe Rabbeinu said to the Yidden a message of the Eibershter. Then the Yidden answered, and Moshe brought it back to the Eibershter. Then it says again that Moshe brought back the words of the Yidden to the Eibershter. In other words, there must have been something else in between that Moshe told them that they have answered. So

Questions of what Hashem said to Moshe

he's asking, מה אמר הקדוש ברוך הוא למשה? What did Hashem say to Moshe? ומה אמר משה לישראל? So what did Moshe say to the Yidden? ומה אמרו ישראל למשה? And what did the Yidden say to Moshe? ומה השיב משה לפני הגבורה? What did Moshe say to the There's something missing here that we have to figure out that was there because the Torah says he gave, brought Moshe the Yiddens words to the Eibershter, and it doesn't say what the Eibershter said. So he answers, זו מצות הגבלה. It's the mitzvah of הגבלה. That means that even though in the Torah it says first פרישה, first it says they should stay away from their wives, and then it says הגבל את ההר, to make a הגבלה on the mountain, b'foal mamash this was done before. דברי רבי יוסי ברבי יהודה, this is what Rabbi Yosi said, and that's what the pasuk means, that Moshe brought the words to the Yidden and the Yidden to the Eibershter. רבי אומר, Rabbi says, no, other things he said. בתחילה פירש עונשה. First Moshe Rabbeinu told the Yidden the punishment of Torah u-mitzvot, and if you don't keep Torah u-mitzvot, that's what you'll be punished. And that's because the ketiv it says, וישב משה. Moshe returned. But the word וישב also means דברים שמיישבין דעתו של אדם. שמיישבין, נו, שובבים means it's a tumult, Confused? No, no.

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