Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Bilangan 9:7

It appears that the intent of the Midrash’s author is to explain why this section is placed here. For it was stated on the first of Nissan, otherwise why would the impure individuals have come to Moses on the 14th of Nissan saying, We are unclean because of a dead person; why should we be excluded, etc. (Numbers 9:7)? If so, why was this section established here? Rather, certainly after arranging the Tabernacle in its place and causing His Divine Presence to dwell among them, He came to warn them not to cause the removal of the Divine Presence through these three primary sins that cause destruction. Therefore, He commanded to send out from the camp every person with tzara’at, every person with a discharge, and everyone impure from contact with the dead, because these three are distinctive signs that within them is either a trace of heresy of idolatry, which brings tzara’at, as it says regarding the Golden Calf, Moses saw that the people were unrestrained (Exodus 32:25). And our Sages said (Bamidbar Rabbah 7:4) that they became leprous, as it is written about the leper, his head shall be unrestrained (Leviticus 13:45). Due to this sin, the First and Second Temples were destroyed, for although they did not worship idols during the Second Temple period, nevertheless, they were guilty of the sin of baseless hatred and evil speech, which is equivalent to idolatry, as our Sages learned (Yalkut Shimoni, Psalms 656) from the verse, With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are with us; who is Lord over us? (Psalms 12:5). One who speaks evil speech is considered as if he has denied a fundamental principle of faith. The reason for sending the leper outside all three camps is to distance any trace of idolatry from all three. And if it is due to the sin of evil speech, he must dwell in isolation, just as he caused separation between people, and if he were not distanced from all three camps, he would not be dwelling in isolation. And everyone with a discharge — for his discharge is a sign that he is unbridled in matters of sexual immorality, and therefore he develops a discharge. He is sent out of the holy Divine Presence camp and out of the Levite camp, which also possesses holiness, as any place of holiness cannot tolerate matters of sexual immorality, in contrast to the Israelite camp, which does not have as much holiness. And everyone impure from contact with the dead — for this also indicates a wayward spirit within him, and that he is not careful about becoming impure through contact with a human corpse, thereby affecting the image of God, so to speak. Therefore, it is appropriate that he distance himself from the camp of the Divine Presence, as he damages the honor of the Divine Presence.

these [Hebrew: ha’el] This word means the same as ha’elleh (compare, “those” [Hebrew: hahem] [Genesis 6:4] and “those” [Hebrew: hahemma] [Numbers 9:7]). However, Sa‘adya Gaon disagrees.