Comentario sobre Deuteronómio 32:12

ה׳ בדד ינחנו THE LORD ALONE GUIDED THEM — i.e. He guided them in the wilderness alone (unassisted) and yet in security,

THE ETERNAL ALONE DID LEAD HIM — G-d dwells in Israel securely alone;⁴⁵See further, 33:28. AND THERE WAS NOT WITH HIM — the pronoun referring either to G-d or Israel — ANY STRANGE GOD. The purport is that Israel has no prince or ruler of all the bnei ha’elohim⁴⁶Genesis 6:2 (Vol. I, pp. 100, 102-103). that guides the nation or assists in its guidance except for G-d alone, for it [Israel] is His portion and His inheritance, as he mentioned.³⁹Verse 9. I have already written on this subject.⁴⁷Leviticus 18:25 (Vol. III, pp. 268-269). And in the Sifre we find:⁴⁸Sifre, Ha’azinu 315. “The Eternal alone did lead him. The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Israel: Just as you dwelled alone in this world and derived no benefit from the nations, so will I place you alone in the World to Come and none of the nations will benefit from you at all. And there was not with him any strange god — none of the princes of the nations of the world will have the right to come and dominate you. This is similar to what is said, and when I go forth, lo, the prince of Greece shall come;⁴⁹Daniel 10:20. but the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me;⁵⁰Ibid., Verse 13. nevertheless I will declare unto thee that which is inscribed in the writing of truth etc.”⁵¹Ibid., Verse 21.

ה' בדד ינחנו, as per Jeremiah 46,28 כי אעשה כלה בכל הגויים...ואותך לא אעשה כלה, “though I will wipe out all the other nations …you I will not wipe out.”