Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Ulangan 34:3

der Palmenstadt. Die in der Bibel zehnmal genannte Stadt an der südlichen Spitze des Toten Meeres, in den Ruinen, die heute den untern Teil von Ouady Kerak bedecken, s. Neubauer, S. 256. Nach Tos. Schebiit VII, 15 und Pesach, 53 a war Zoar sehr palmenreich, sodass es wie Jericho (Deut. 34, 3 u. ö.) schlechthin die Palmenstadt genannt wurde. Noch im Mittelalter zeichnete sich Zoar durch seinen Palmenreichtum aus; die Schriftsteller der Kreuzzüge Albertus Aquensis, Wilhelm von Tyrus u. A. bezeichnen die Stadt als Villa palmarum oder französiert Palmer, Paumier. Vgl. Graetz in der Monatsschr. f. Gesch. u. Wiss. d. Jud. 1872, S. 338ff.

from Tamar From Jericho, which is the city of date palms, (Deut. 33:3), and so did Jonathan render it.

from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook [It starts] from Jericho, the city of date palms (הַתְּמָרִים), in the eastern corner, and comes to the west to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, and proceeds until the brook of Egypt, which empties into the Great Sea in the southwestern corner.

והיה הטוב ההוא AND IT SHALL BE THAT WHAT GOODNESS [THE LORD SHALL DO UNTO US, THE SAME WILL WE DO UNTO THEE] — What good did they actually bestow upon him (i.e. when did they redeem their promise)? They (our Sages) say: When the Israelites were parcelling out the Land the most fertile part of Jericho proved to extend over an area of 500 by 500 cubits; they left it unparcelled and said: He in whose portion of land the Sanctuary will be built shall take it as a substitute for giving up the land upon which the Temple was built. In the meantime, however, they gave it to the children of Jethro — to Jonadab the son of Rechab, [as it is said, (Judges 1:16) “And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up out of the city of the palm tree” (which is identical with Jericho; cf. Deuteronomy 34:3)] (Sifrei Bamidbar 81).

Baal Tamar. The plain of Yericho.⁷“Tamar”, lit. “date”, alludes to Yericho, “The city of dates.” Devarim, 34:3.