פירוש על דברים 33:4

תורה THE LAW which צוה לנו משה MOSES COMMANDED US, מורשה is AN INHERITANCE to THE CONGREGATION OF JACOB: we have taken it and we will not abandon it.

MOSES COMMANDED US A LAW. The meaning thereof is that Israel will always “take” [receive His words] and say “Moses commanded us a Law and this will be an inheritance of the congregation of Jacob, for all the children of Jacob shall possess it forever and observe it, for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed.”⁵⁹Above, 31:21. And our Rabbis interpreted⁶⁰Tanchuma, Vayakheil 8. that he did not say “an inheritance of the house of Jacob” or “the seed of Jacob” — he stated of the congregation of Jacob in order to suggest that many [strangers] would join them and the Torah will always be an inheritance of Jacob and of all who congregate to him, these being the strangers that join themselves to the Eternal, to minister unto Him,⁶¹Isaiah 56:6. and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob,⁶²Ibid., 14:1. and they will all be called “His congregation.”

ישא מדברותיך, a reference to when the people said to G’d at the revelation at Mount Sinai that He should make Moses His intermediary, elevate him to communicate G’d’s words, conveying His words to them, as they were afraid they would i.e. if they had to listen to G’d’s voice directly any longer. (This is the meaning of Moses hearing the voice of the Lord speaking to him (only) in Numbers7,8 The word מדברותיך in this verse refers to the Torah, which was attributed to Moses, on account of the people preferring to hear its words from Moses’ mouth. This is why the Torah describes the people as saying תורה צוה לנו משה, “Moses has commanded the Torah to us,” instead of “G’d has commanded the Torah to us.” (verse 5)