וַיִּסְע֣וּ מֵרְפִידִ֗ים וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ מִדְבַּ֣ר סִינַ֔י וַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּ בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר וַיִּֽחַן־שָׁ֥ם יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל נֶ֥גֶד הָהָֽר׃
Mereka berangkat dari Rafidim, lalu tiba di padang gurun Sinai dan berkemah di padang gurun itu; di sana Israel berkemah di depan gunung itu.
Ohr Ne'erav
[Sec. 21] 43. [The beginner] must also know that there are holy Names inferior to these. They are similar to appellations for them. [Thus] they have ascribed to Keter the Name Araryta, and to Ḥokhmah the twenty-two [Hebrew] letters with [the suffix] yah, like this: ayah, byah, etc. This [Name] designates the three first [sefirot] together: Khuzu Behokhsaz Khuzu. To Ḥesed belongs the seventy-two letter Name which comes out of the verses He traveled … he came… he pitched (Exod. 19:2). It contains 216 letters like the numerical [equivalent] of aryeh in Ḥesed. Gevurah has the forty-two letter Name which comes out of [the verses] from In the beginning (Gen. 1:1) to the bet in bohu (“void”), [equaling] forty-two letters. They constitute seven Names corresponding to the seven sefirot.
Kuntres Mattan Torah
The exception was the Jewish nation due to their prior enslavement by the savage Egyptian nation that lasted four hundred years and was accompanied by great and terrible suffering. As we know from the words of the sages, “Just as… salt sweetens the meat… so too suffering cleanses a person’s transgressions” (tractate Berakhot 5a), that is, it greatly purifies the body. In addition, the purification their holy ancestors had undergone supported them (as said in section 16). This is the main point, as brought by several verses in the Torah; and these two antecedents prepared them for it. The verse therefore discusses them in the singular, as said, “and there Israel camped before the mountain” (Exodus 19:2), which the sages have interpreted to mean “as one man and with one mind” (Rashi on Exodus 19:2) since each individual in the nation fully withdrew from self-love and his whole purpose was only to benefit others, as we proved above (section 16) regarding the meaning of the commandment “love your neighbor as yourself.” Read there carefully. Thus, all the individuals in the nation merged and became one mind and one person, because only then were they ready to receive the Torah, as explained.