וְרוּחֲךָ֨ הַטּוֹבָ֔ה נָתַ֖תָּ לְהַשְׂכִּילָ֑ם וּמַנְךָ֙ לֹא־מָנַ֣עְתָּ מִפִּיהֶ֔ם וּמַ֛יִם נָתַ֥תָּה לָהֶ֖ם לִצְמָאָֽם׃
Engkau memberikan roh-Mu yang baik untuk mengajar mereka. Manna-Mu tidak Engkau tahan dari mulut mereka, dan Engkau memberikan air kepada mereka ketika mereka haus.
Kitzur Ba'al HaTurim
He fed you the mon … in order to inform you. This teaches that eating mon gives them intelligence. Similarly Ezra states, “You also gave Your good spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold Your mon from their mouth” (Nechemia 9:20). This is the meaning of the statement (Yalkus Shimoni Shemos 13): The Torah was only given to those who eat mon.
Rabbeinu Bahya
וילבישם, “He clothed them.” It would have been more appropriate for the Torah to write כתנות עור ללבוש, ”coats of leather to serve as clothing.” This is the way Yaakov described it when he asked G-d for בגד ללבש, “clothes to wear” in Genesis 28,20. According to the plain meaning of the text the Torah simply wanted to relate the fact that they were being clothed to G-d Himself to show G-d’s loving concern and His pity for His creatures. Even though they had sinned, this did not mean that G-d no longer related to them with feelings of fondness. He, personally, engaged in the act of dressing them. We find that G-d related similarly to the Jewish people in the desert when He personally provided them with manna. G-d is on record with these words that he Himself made the manna rain down from heaven. We read in Exodus 16,4 “Here I will make manna rain down for you from the heaven.” This was in spite of the fact that the Israelites had committed a sin similar to that of Adam and Chavah He did not cease to relate to hem lovingly. He never stopped providing them with manna during all the forty years in spite of grievous sins committed at one time or another. This is what Ezra referred to when he said (Nechemiah 9,20) ומנך לא מנעת מפיהם, “and You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths.” From this we learn that legally speaking, G-d would have been entitled to deny them the manna. We find that G-d performed the miracle of splitting the sea to save the Israelites from the pursuing Egyptians even though there were idolaters among them. This is the meaning of Zechariah 10,11 ועבר בים צרה, “he crossed the sea with an idol.” (Sanhedrin 103 understands the word צרה in that verse as a reference to the idol used by the fake Levite Micah hundreds of years later).
All of the items mentioned reflect the love of G-d; this is the meaning of Daniel 9,7 לך ה' הצדקה ולנו בשת הפנים, “Yours, O Lord is the righteousness, and ours is the shamefacedness.
All of the items mentioned reflect the love of G-d; this is the meaning of Daniel 9,7 לך ה' הצדקה ולנו בשת הפנים, “Yours, O Lord is the righteousness, and ours is the shamefacedness.