רְאֵ֗ה אָנֹכִ֛י נֹתֵ֥ן לִפְנֵיכֶ֖ם הַיּ֑וֹם בְּרָכָ֖ה וּקְלָלָֽה׃
Voyez, je vous propose en ce jour, d’une part, la bénédiction, la malédiction de l’autre:
Sha'ar HaPesukim
We must explain the idea of the exile in Egypt here; and through it, many verses scattered here and there will be understood. What the idea is of the cause for the exile of the Jewish people being exiled among the nations has already been explained in Parashat Re'eh, concerning the rememberace of the exile from Egypt. And we said that Adam the first man included all of the souls. But when he sinned, all of those souls fell from him into the husks distributed among the seventy nations. So the Jewish people has to be exiled there, to each and every nation, to collect the holy flowers of souls that were scattered among those thorns. And it is like the sages, may their memory be blessed, said (Pesachim 87b), "Why are the Jewish people exiled among the peoples? In order that converts will add themselves to them, etc." And understand this well.
Kuntres Mattan Torah
Beginning with a single nation
19. Rabbi Elazar, son of Rabbi Shimon, speaks even more highly of mutual guarantee. Not only are the Jewish people guarantors for each other, the entire world is part of mutual guarantee. No one disagrees; everyone agrees that at first it suffices for a single nation to observe the Torah, that is, merely to begin to improve the world since it is impossible to begin with all nations at once. According to the words of the sages (see the article The Giving of the Torah, section 5), the Holy One, blessed be He, went around with the Torah to every nation and the speakers of every tongue but they did not wish to receive it; that is, they were mired in the filth of self-love up to their noses, some in fornication, some in robbery and murder, and the like, so that it was unimaginable in those days to speak with them about consenting to withdraw from self-love.
19. Rabbi Elazar, son of Rabbi Shimon, speaks even more highly of mutual guarantee. Not only are the Jewish people guarantors for each other, the entire world is part of mutual guarantee. No one disagrees; everyone agrees that at first it suffices for a single nation to observe the Torah, that is, merely to begin to improve the world since it is impossible to begin with all nations at once. According to the words of the sages (see the article The Giving of the Torah, section 5), the Holy One, blessed be He, went around with the Torah to every nation and the speakers of every tongue but they did not wish to receive it; that is, they were mired in the filth of self-love up to their noses, some in fornication, some in robbery and murder, and the like, so that it was unimaginable in those days to speak with them about consenting to withdraw from self-love.