Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Ulangan 29:8

ותבאו אל המקום הזה AND YOU CAME TO THIS PLACE — Now you see yourselves in greatness and glory (you have defeated Sihon and Og); do not rebel against the Omnipresent nor let your hearts be proud, ושמרתם את דברי הברית הזאת BUT KEEP THE WORDS OF THIS COVENANT. — Another explanation of AND THE LORD HAS NOT GIVEN YOU A HEART TO UNDERSTAND [UNTO THIS DAY] — for no-one can fathom the depths of his teacher’s mind nor the wisdom of his teaching until after forty years of study under him. Therefore the Omnipresent has not dealt with you so strictly until this day (after forty years’ instruction of the Torah), but from now and onward He will deal strictly with you — therefore ושמרתם את דברי הברית הזאת וגו׳ KEEP THE WORDS OF THIS COVENANT etc. (Avodah Zarah 5b).

This is stated [by Rava] in Tractate Avodah Zarah 18:³⁹I found it on 19a. At the beginning the Torah belongs only to the Holy One, blessed be He, but at the end it belongs to him [who studies it], for it is said, “But His desire is in the Torah of God, and in his [own] Torah he meditates day and night.”⁴⁰Psalms 1:2. [Meaning], it is as if the Torah is his, since he has produced [new laws] according to the will of the Holy One, blessed be He.’” For the Torah is at first referred to as “His desire,” and then as “he meditates” [and “meditates” means that he derives new laws].⁴¹Rashi explains “meditates” to mean the application of comparative logic and analysis. This [interpretation that la’asos and its derivatives can mean the creation of halachah is further supported] by what is stated in Tractate Sanhedrin 99b, [pertaining to one who teaches another’s son Torah: Scripture regards him as though he had created the words of the Torah, for it is written, “You will preserve the words of this beris [covenant], va-asisem – you will make – osam – them.’⁴²Deut. 29:8. Do not read the last word of the verse as osam, “them,” but rather read it as atem, “yourselves.” See what I wrote in She’ilta 7:3 [that va-asisem is referring to the origination and establishment of halachah].⁴³The She’iltos states that this verse refers to analyzing the Torah and protecting it. The Torah is preserved by teaching it to others and providing the students with the tools necessary to originate halachah on their own. Thus whatever halachah the students originate it is as if it was created by the teacher. In the midrash on the Torah passage of Be-hukosai,⁴⁴See Toras Kohanim and Midrash Tanhuma. it states: “va-asisem,” and you will make them.’⁴⁵Lev. 26:3. If you guard the Torah I will consider it as if you had produced the commandments.”⁴⁶If the Toras Kohanim is translated as “practicing the commandments,” the statement becomes repetitious, for if one guards the Torah, it is obvious that one is also practicing the commandments. Therefore, when Scripture states asisem, it means “you had created them.” However, when one originates a Halachah in sincerity, behold, he has created that law and this is the meaning of oseihem [in the verse: “The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, good understanding to all oseihem, who make them.”⁴⁷Psalms 111:10. See Berachos 17a. The fear of God helps ensure that good understanding is provided to those who originate laws in truth].

the Scroll of the Covenant All the fright that the king experienced was due to the words (Deut. 28: 36): “The Lord will lead you,” and he saw that the Torah called it a covenant: “These are the words of the covenant.” Therefore, he too enacted a covenant and saw written immediately following it (ibid. 29:8): “And you shall keep the words, etc., and practice them.” Josiah also saw written immediately following (ibid. verses 9ff.): “You are standing today, all of you, etc....your children, your wives...that you should pass into the covenant...enacts with you today.” He said, “In such a manner, I too shall enact a covenant, for there it is written: ‘You are standing, etc.’ I too [will do so], ‘And he caused all those found in Jerusalem, both small and great, to stand.’”