לָ֭מָּה פָּרַ֣צְתָּ גְדֵרֶ֑יהָ וְ֝אָר֗וּהָ כָּל־עֹ֥בְרֵי דָֽרֶךְ׃
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Rashi
I have gathered. I gathered, and it is a term of the Mishnah, “as much space [as is required by] a gatherer אוֹרֶה and his basket.”1Mishnayos Shvi’is 1:2. The term אורה there refers to the harvest of figs. (Sifsei Chachomim) It is also a term found in Scripture, “and all wayfarers have plucked וְאָרוּהָ its fruit.”2Tehillim 80:13. And this was stated in regard to the incense, which they burned as an individual incense offering—the tribal princes on the outside altar and it was accepted.3This incense offering was unusual in two ways. First, because it was an individual offering instead of a communal one; and because it was burned on the outer altar instead of the inner [golden] altar. This is something that does not apply to later generations. Because of this, it is stated, “I have eaten my sugar cane with my sugar.” There is honey that grows in canes, as it is stated, “into the sugar of the יַעְרַת canes ,”4I Shmuel 14:27. and “יַעְרַת” is a term referring to a cane, as in, “and she placed [it] among the reeds בַּסוּף,”5Shemos 2:3. [which Targum renders] “and she placed it in the reeds בְּיַעֲרָא.” And the sugar is sucked out and the wood is discarded. But I, out of great love, “ate my sugar cane with my sugar,” I ate the cane with the sugar, the inedible with the edible, [signifying] the freewill incense offering,6The incense offering is symbolized by ‘myrrh,’ because it is one of its most important ingredients. and likewise, the he-goats sin-offering that the tribal princes sacrificed, although a sin-offering is not brought as a freewill sacrifice, but I accepted them on that day.
Rav Hirsch
ועשו ארון, das erste und einzige כלי, dessen Gestaltung auch im Ausdruck der Anordnung von der ganzen Volksgesamtheit erwartet wird, ist der ארון, die Lade des Zeugnisses. Wie es zuvor hieß: ועשו לי מקדש, so hier unmittelbar darauf: ועשו ארון und so auch von den die Symbolik der Lade krönenden Cherubimgestaltungen, V. 19 מן הכפרת תעשו את הכרובים (siehe das.). Von allem anderen und weiteren heißt es: ועשית וצפית usw. Es scheint fast, als ob die ganze Aufgabe: ועשו לי מקדש in dem ועשו ארון עצי שטים konzentriert liege, und alles Fernere nur eine weitere Ausführung des ארון sei. ארון (von ארה: zum Genuss abpflücken, Hohel. 5, 2 u. Ps. 80, 13, verwandt mit הרה: einen Lebenskeim in sich aufnehmen, der Wurzel von תורה) bezeichnet einen Behälter, vermittelst dessen das darin Aufzunehmende für immer hingenommen wird. So Bereschit 50, 26: Sarg, und Kön. II. 12, 10 u. Chron. II. 24, 8: Empfangskasse für Heiligtumsspenden. Die Lade nimmt das Gesetz für Israel hin, oder vielmehr: Israel nimmt mit der Lade das Gesetz hin.
Rashi
women shall come and ignite it A people weak as women shall ignite them. Jonathan renders in this manner. מְאִירוֹת means ‘ignite.’ Comp. (Mal. 1:10) “And you shall not light (תָּאִירוּ) My altar in vain.” Dunash too interpreted it in this manner, for since the wood will be dry, it will be easy to ignite. Menahem, however, interpreted it to mean ‘gather.’ Comp. (Song 5:1) “I gathered (אָרִיתִי) my myrrh.” Also (Ps. 80:13): “All passersby gathered from it (וְאָרוּהָ).” (Machbereth Menahem p. 32) Dunash replied, “Does it not say, ‘When its branches dry out’? And with dry grapes, no one gathers fruit.” (Teshuvoth Dunash p. 45)] Likewise, our Sages, who prohibited accepting charity from them because of this reason, for they stated in Baba Bathra ch. 1, (10b,) “Does he not believe, ‘When its branches dry out, they shall be broken?’”