Midrash su Deuteronomio 11:7

[(Deut. 31:14:) BEHOLD (HN) THE DAYS ARE DRAWING NEAR FOR YOU <TO DIE>. Moses said to the Holy One: Sovereign of the Universe, with the word that I <used to> praise³⁰Cf. Gk.: kalos. you when I said (in Deut. 10:14): BEHOLD (HN) THE HEAVENS <AND THE HEAVENS OF THE HEAVENS, THE EARTH AND ALL THAT IS IN IT> BELONG TO THE LORD YOUR GOD! By that <very word> (i.e., HN) you have condemned me at death.³¹Above, Deut. 2:6; Tanh., Deut. 11:7.: The Holy One said to him: I am bringing about contentment, (as in Deut. 31:16): BEHOLD (HN-) YOU (-K) ARE <SOON> TO SLEEP WITH YOUR ANCESTORS…. R. Abbahu said: The words, BEHOLD YOU (HNK), can only mean contentment, since it is stated (in Job 3:17): THERE (in death) THE WEARY ARE AT REST (yanuhu, understood to have the root HNK).³²Cf. Gen. R. 9:5.

(Deut. 31:14, literally:) BEHOLD YOUR DAYS ARE DRAWING NEAR <TO DIE>. R. Joshua ben Levi said: A drawing near is uttered with reference to the ancestors, and a drawing near is uttered with reference to the kings (in I Kings 2:1): THEN WHEN THE DAYS FOR DAVID TO DIE DREW NEAR. With reference to the prophets (there is Moses, whom the Holy One addresses in the second person in Deut. 31:14): BEHOLD YOUR DAYS ARE DRAWING NEAR <TO DIE>. Rabbi Samuel bar Nahmani said: Do days die? These words are simply a reference to the righteous. When they die, their days pass away from the world, but they themselves remain alive, as stated (in Job 12:10): IN WHOSE HAND IS EVERY LIVING SOUL. If the living are delivered into his hand, are the dead not delivered into his hand? It is simply that these are the righteous, who even in their death are called living.³³Ber. 18ab. Thus it is stated (in II Sam. 23:20): AND BENAIAH BEN JEHOIADA, THE SON OF A VALIANT WARRIOR (literally: OF A LIVING PERSON) FROM KAZBEEL, WHO HAD PERFORMED GREAT DEEDS…. However, the wicked during their lifetime and in their death are called dead, as stated (in Ezek. 21:30 [25]): AND YOU, O SLAIN WICKED < PRINCE OF ISRAEL, WHOSE DAY HAS COME>…. And so it says (in Deut. 17:6): ON THE EVIDENCE OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES SHALL THE DEAD BE PUT TO DEATH. Does someone dead deserve another death? It is simply that the wicked during life are regarded as dead. For what reason? On seeing the rising sun, such a one does not say the blessing, "Blessed Be the One Who Forms the Luminaries."³⁴The words, “Blessed are you, O Lord, who forms the luminaries (Barukh yotser ha-me’orot),” come at the end of the first blessing before the morning Shema‘, Yotser Or (“Who Forms Light”). For its use as a separate blessing with the title given here, see Ber. 12a. Note that the parallel in Tanh., Deut. 11:7, has the ore traditional Yotser Or here. When it sets, he does not say the blessing, "Who Brings on Evenings."³⁵The opening blessing before the evening Shema‘.: Nor does he say a blessing when eating or drinking. However, the righteous do say a blessing for each and every <one of these> things. Moreover, they are uttered, not <only> while they are alive, but even when they are dead. Thus it is stated (in Ps. 149:5): LET THE SAINTS REJOICE IN GLORY; LET THEM SING FOR JOY UPON THEIR BEDS….