Midrash su Deuteronomio 32:46

(Numb. 15:39:) SO IT SHALL BE A TASSEL FOR YOU THAT YOU MAY SEE IT <AND REMEMBER ALL THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD….> Thus it should be visible. And what is its size? Bet Shammay says four fingers, while Bet Hillel says three.⁷⁹Men. 41b. (Ibid.:) THAT YOU MAY SEE IT. <There is> exception for a garment <worn> at night.⁸⁰Sifre to Numb. 15:39 (115); Men. 43a. Are you saying: For a garment <worn> at night? Or is <the exception> only for a garment of a blind person? Hence, it says again (in vs. 40): SO THAT YOU MAY REMEMBER <AND PERFORM ALL MY COMMANDMENTS….> Hence, it ordains seeing, and it ordains remembering: remembering for the one who does not see and seeing for the one who does see. (vs. 39:) THAT YOU MAY SEE IT. IT (here) is masculine and not feminine.⁸¹Even though the antecedent, tassel, is feminine in Hebrew. When Israel looks at that <feminine> tassel of blue, it will seem to them as though the Divine Presence is dwelling among them.⁸²Since Divine Presence is also feminine, the gender argument becomes ineffective. Cf. the parallels in Tanh., Numb. R. 15, in Numb. 17:5, and in Buber’s “Spanish” manuscript (described on p. 150 of his “Mavo”), all of which speak here of Israel seeing the masculine “throne of glory, which is blue in appearance.” Cf. also Sifre to Numb. 15:39 (115), where the argument is that the pronoun is IT (in the singular) and not THEM (in the plural) with reference to tassels. (Vss. 39–40:) THAT YOU MAY SEE…. SO THAT YOU MAY REMEMBER. The seeing leads to remembering <the commandments>, and remembering leads to performing <them>. Thus it is stated (in vs. 40): SO THAT YOU MAY REMEMBER AND PERFORM <ALL MY COMMANDMENTS…. > Why? (Deut. 32:47): BECAUSE IT IS NOT A TRIFLING THING FOR YOU.

(Devarim 32:46) "And he said to them: Put your hearts, etc.": We are hereby taught that one's eyes and heart and ears must be attuned to words of Torah. And thus is it written (Ezekiel 44:5) "And the L-rd said to me: Son of man, set your heart and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I am saying to you about all the laws of the Temple … and set your heart to the entrance of the Temple and to all the exits of the sanctuary." Now does this not follow a fortiori? If re the Temple, which can be seen by the eyes and measured by the hand, one must "attune" his eyes and his heart and his ears — how much more so re words of Torah, which are like mountains hanging on a hair!