Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Yeremia 1:5

And the Levites were counted from one month old because that tribe was accustomed to being counted from the womb, as it is said about Jeremiah the priest Before you came out of the womb I sanctified you (Jeremiah 1:5). Therefore, it is necessary that in all the countings, the Israelites were never fewer than 600,000, excluding the Levites. Even though in the first counting they were 600,000 including the Levites, and there weren’t 28 camps in the lower realms corresponding to the seven clouds, nevertheless, the Holy One, blessed be He, had not yet come to rest His Divine Presence in the lower realms to make for Himself a permanent dwelling below. And now, on the first of Iyar, when 30 days create a legal presumption [chazakah] that His dwelling would be permanent, God came with all His holy ones to establish a dwelling in the lower realms as the beauty of a person to dwell in a house (Isaiah 44:13). From then on, He needed to count them to make known that they needed to be of this number in order to fill the 28 camps of 22,000 at that time when God established His permanent Divine Presence in the Tent of Meeting; therefore it says here in the Tent of Meeting. This is a precious interpretation that fits perfectly regarding the number of 600,000, about which most commentators have gone out to gather a sufficient explanation but have not found one.

SEE, I HAVE CALLED BY NAME BEZALEL THE SON OF URI, THE SON OF HUR. G-d said to Moses, See, I have called by name, and Moses said to Israel, See, the Eternal hath called by name.²⁰⁴And the question appears: Why was that special designation called for? The answer is that it was needed because etc. The reason for this is because Israel in Egypt had been crushed under the work in mortar and in brick,²⁰⁵Above, 1:14. and had acquired no knowledge of how to work with silver and gold, and the cutting of precious stones, and had never seen them at all. It was thus a wonder that there was to be found amongst them such a great wise-hearted man who knew how to work with silver and gold, and in cutting of stones [for setting] and in carving of wood, a craftsman, an embroiderer, and a weaver.²⁰⁶See further, 35:35. For even amongst those who study before the experts, you cannot find one who is proficient in all these crafts. And even those who know them and are used to doing them, if their hands are continually engaged in [work with] lime and mud, lose the ability to do with them such artistic and delicate work. Moreover, he [i.e. Bezalel] was a great Sage in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge,²⁰⁷Verse 3. to understand the secret of the Tabernacle and all its vessels, why they were commanded and to what they hinted. Therefore G-d said to Moses that when he sees this wonder he should know that I filled him with the spirit of G-d,²⁰⁷Verse 3. to know all these things in order that he would make the Tabernacle. For it was His Will to make the Tabernacle in the wilderness, and He created him for His glory,²⁰⁸See Isaiah 43:7. And in Chapter Kinyan Torah: “Whatsoever the Holy One, blessed be He, created in His world He created it but for His glory.” Bezalel thus was born for that sacred purpose, as the thought continues to be unfolded by Ramban. for it is He that called the generations from the beginning,²⁰⁹Isaiah 41:4. — See Vol. I, p. 59, Note 240, for important note on this topic. it being similar in meaning to the verse, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee.²¹⁰Jeremiah 1:5. The same type of expression we find in the verse, See that the Eternal hath given you the Sabbath; therefore He giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days.²¹¹Above, 16:29. Here too the sense of the verse is: “See the wonder…”
Our Rabbis have on this topic a Midrash:²¹²Shemoth Rabbah 40:2. “G-d showed Moses the book of the first man and told him: ‘Each person I have given a role from that moment on, and Bezalel too I have given a role already then, as it is said, See, I have called by name Bezalel.’” This is similar to what I have explained. The Rabbis have also said:²¹³Berachoth 55a. “Bezalel knew how to combine the letters with which heaven and earth were created.” The purport of this saying is that the Tabernacle alludes to these matters [heaven and earth], and he knew and understood its secret.

For I will pour water, etc. As I pour water over the place that is thirsty, so will I pour out the spirit of my holiness, or of my salvation, etc. אֶצּׁק I will pour out. The Dagesh in צ compensates for the י which is omitted;²The root of אצק is יצק. comp. אצרך I shall form thee (Jer. 1:5)

days have been formed and one of them All man’s deeds and the end of the days are revealed before You as if they were already formed, although not one of them was in existence, and not one was yet in the world. These are the wonders of God’s works and the way of His might, that future events are revealed to Him before they come. And so, Scripture says (Jer. 1:5): “When I had not yet formed you in the womb, etc.”