Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Keluaran 34:35

הנה אנכי כורת ברית, with regard to your request that I personally go with you, the answer is positive, as well as with regard to your request to grant you and the people a mark of distinction. (33,16) נגד כל העם אעשה לך, I will perform such miracles וראה כל העם and the whole nation will see the greatness כי נורה הוא, that it is indeed awesome; we know this from verse 30 where we read that the people were afraid of coming near Moses. It is also reported in verse 35 that the face of Moses radiated rays of light.

Moses was on Mount Sinai three times for forty days. The first forty days that Moses went was to receive the Torah. This was the time that Israel made the Golden Calf. The second forty days Moses prayed that God should forgive them for the sin of the Golden Calf. At this time Israel was like someone who was excommunicated. Moses had taken his tent out from among the Israelites. He did not want to be among them. The Holy One said: the paupers have been excommunicated enough; take your tent again to the Israelites. The third forty days, Moses went to receive the second tablets and Israel fasted and cried the whole forty days. For the last forty days they all fasted day and night. They went to Mount Sinai, toward Moses, and all cried together. Moses also cried with them. The Holy One had compassion and forgave them for their sins. The Holy One said that the crying should become joy and happiness. This day should be one to forgive your sins forever, every year. This day was like Yom Kippur, when he brought the second tablets. Moses had broken the first tablets because they had made the Golden Calf. Moses had seen the letters of the first tablets fly up from the tablets, since Israel had not been worthy to receive the Torah. Moses had thrown away the tablets and they were broken. Moses immediately became mute and could not respond. The same time there was a decree before the Holy One that Israel learn Torah only with anguish, worry, sadness, exile, wandering from city to city like a penitent, and through poverty, that they should not have enough food. The one who is rich cannot study Torah properly and must become weak through the study of Torah. When the Messiah will come, the same ones will again have great joy. They also have great joy in the next world. The Yalkut writes more in the Torah portion. Moses went down and said: Lord of the Universe, I want to do justice to those who worshiped the foreign gods. Moses went and burned the Golden Calf and stood in the gate before Israel and called out: whoever worshiped the Holy One should come to me. The Holy One has told me that I should kill whoever worshiped the foreign gods. Even though the Holy One had ordered to kill them, that is to say, the people should remember that the Holy One ordered this. Afterwards, Moses prayed and said: Lord of the Universe, only three thousand have sinned and worshiped the foreign gods with their whole heart. Because of this you want to kill six hundred thousand people? The Holy One had compassion. A parable. A king became angry with his eldest son. He took him and gave him into the hands of his minister that he should kill him and feed him to the dogs and wild animals. The minister went and took him to another city and allowed him to live. He told the king nothing about this. After thirty days, the king made a banquet and was happy and he saw that his oldest son was not there. He became very sad and no servant knew why the king was sad. However, the minister who had hidden the son understood that the king was sad because of his oldest son. The minister went and brought the oldest son before the king. The king became happy and took his crown and gave it to that minister. So too was Moses. He had prayed four or five times for Israel and had protected them from death. The Holy One took the crown of the Torah and gave it to Moses, as the verse says, “the Israelites saw the face of Moses” [34:35]. The children of Israel saw Moses’ face and they could not look at Moses because his face shone like the moon and the sun. The light shone on Moses forever, even after his death, as the verse says, “his eyes were undimmed” [Deuteronomy, 34:7]. That is to say, when Moses died his eyes and his face still shined. So too, every scholar who studies day and night, the Holy One gives him light in his face in the next world, as the verse says, “the life of my lord will be bound up in the bundle of life in the care of the Lord” [I Samuel, 25:29].³⁴Yalkut Shimoni, Ki Tisa, Remez, 391. That is to say, the soul of the righteous one is with the Holy One. The righteous one is like the Holy One in that he shines like the Holy One.