פירוש על במדבר 11:3

AND HE [Moses] CALLED THE NAME OF THAT PLACE TABERAH (Burning). [The meaning thereof is that] he called the place on which the fire came down in the uttermost part of the camp¹⁴⁵Further, 11:1. by that name, and they did not journey from that place, for whilst still encamped there they fell a lusting¹⁴⁶Ibid., Verse 4. [for flesh], and called the name of the city or place Kibroth-hattaavah (the graves of lust).¹⁵⁸Further, Verse 34. — This explains why it is nowhere stated that they set forth from Taberah. According to Ramban, there were two reasons for this. Firstly, the name Taberah was only given to that part of the camp where the fire struck. Secondly, whilst still encamped there, the events occurred for which the place came to be called Kibroth-hattaavah, and hence that was the name the Torah subsequently used.

ויקרא שם המקום ההוא תבערה, “He called the name of that place Taveyrah.” According to Nachmanides theמקום ההוא refers to the edge of the camp where the heavenly fire had descended the people called Taveyrah, and they did not move on from that place, as it was at that very same location that they cultivated their craving for meat. Subsequently, they called that whole town or that place קברות התאווה, “graves where the victims of inordinate desire were buried.”

תבערה, “punitive fire by the Lord.”