Midrash su Deuteronomio 9:26

(Job 22:28:) WHEN YOU DECREE SOMETHING, IT SHALL COME TO PASS FOR YOU. The Holy One has spoken to the righteous (tsaddiq) one: If you have done my will, I also will put your will ahead of my own. (Ibid.:) WHEN YOU DECREE SOMETHING, IT SHALL COME TO PASS FOR YOU…. R. Berekhyah the Priest said: What is the meaning of IT SHALL COME TO PASS FOR YOU? The Holy One has said to the righteous one: When I say something and you say something < else >, I abrogate mine, as it were, to make yours come to pass. Ergo: IT SHALL COME TO PASS FOR YOU. When was the pronouncement? When < Israel > committed that act (i.e., of the golden calf). What did the Holy One do? He said to Moses (in Exod. 32:7): GO AND GET DOWN, FOR YOUR PEOPLE < WHOM YOU BROUGHT UP FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT > HAVE ACTED BASELY. What is written (in vs. 10)? SO NOW LEAVE ME ALONE < SO THAT MY ANGER MAY BURN AGAINST THEM >…. Moses immediately rose up in prayer and supplication, as stated (in vs. 11): BUT MOSES IMPLORED < THE LORD HIS GOD >…. (Deut. 9:26, 29:) O LORD GOD, DO NOT DESTROY YOUR PEOPLE AND YOUR HERITAGE…. FOR THEY ARE YOUR PEOPLE AND YOUR HERITAGE…. The Holy One said to him: I cannot < endure them >. He said to him: Just as you have endured them from Egypt up to now, so endure them < this time >. (Numb. 14:19-20:) PLEASE PARDON THE INIQUITY OF THIS PEOPLE < ACCORDING TO YOUR GREAT STEADFAST LOVE, EVEN AS YOU HAVE PARDONED THIS PEOPLE FROM EGYPT UP TO NOW >. THEN THE LORD SAID: I HAVE PARDONED THEM AS YOU ASKED. Immediately (according to Exod. 32:14): THE LORD REPENTED OF THE EVIL WHICH HE HAD PLANNED TO DO TO HIS PEOPLE. (Job 22:28:) WHEN YOU DECREE SOMETHING, IT SHALL COME TO PASS FOR YOU. Jacob also vowed things before the Holy One. Where is it shown? Where it is stated (in Gen. 28:20-21): THEN JACOB VOWED A VOW, SAYING: < IF GOD IS WITH ME, PROTECTS ME ON THIS WAY THAT I GO, AND GIVES ME FOOD TO EAT AND CLOTHING TO PUT ON >, AND IF I RETURN SAFELY UNTO MY FATHER'S HOUSE, < THE LORD SHALL BE MY GOD >. He said to him: My father, Isaac, wanted to go abroad, but you did not permit him because he was a whole burnt offering. You appeared to him and said to him (in Gen. 26:2): DO NOT GO DOWN TO EGYPT. Now I am going away, not for my benefit, but < from > before my brother lest he kill me. I have received permission from you and from my father. Do not forsake me. (Gen. 28:20:) THEN JACOB VOWED A VOW, < SAYING >:

...“…directed toward Your habitation, which You made, O Lord…” (Exodus 15:17) This is one of the places which indicate that the throne above is aligned with the throne below, as it says “So says the Lord, The heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool…” (Isaiah 66:1) And it says “And He said to me, Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet…” (Ezekiel 43:7) and “The Lord is in His Holy Temple. The Lord-His throne is in Heaven…” (Tehillim 11:4) and “I have surely built You a house to dwell in…” (Kings 8:13) The Holy Temple is beloved before He Who Spoke and Brought the World Into Being. All of the world was created only with the speech of the Holy One, as it says “By the word of the Lord, the heavens were made…” (Tehillim 33:6) but when He built the Holy Temple it was, so to speak, through His action ‘which You made, O Lord.’ Oy to the nations of the world, whose ears heard that the Holy Temple is called an action in relation to the One Who Spoke and Brought the World Into Being and destroyed it. The one who said “…Raze it, raze it, down to its foundation!” (Tehillim 137:7) What does He say? “And you prophesy to them all these words, and you shall say to them: The Lord shall roar from above, and from His Holy Habitation He shall give forth His voice; He shall roar over His habitation… A stirring has come until the end of the earth, for God has a controversy with the nations…” (Jeremiah 25:30-31)

Hew these two tablets of stone (Exod. 34:1). Scripture states elsewhere in allusion to this verse: The wrath of a king is as messengers of death; but a wise man will pacify it (Prov. 16:14). The wrath of a king is as messengers of death alludes to the Holy One, blessed be He. After the people had made the golden calf the demons attacked Moses. He pleaded for mercy, recalling the merit of the patriarchs and they departed from him. When he broke the tablets his anger diminished. What did Moses witness that compelled him to break the tablets? It may be compared to a king who travels abroad while his wife remains at home with the servants. Because she was alone with them, rumors began to circulate concerning her behavior. The king heard them, and when he returned home, he wanted to kill her. His advisor learned this and tore up her marriage certificate. He said: “If the king should say, my wife has done such and such, we can reply, she is no longer your wife.” The king inquired about her and found that she had done nothing wrong. Only the maidservants had acted shamefully. He became reconciled with her immediately. His advisor then said to him: “Master, write another marriage contract, since the first one was torn up.” “You tore it up,” the king replied, “so now you must bring the parchment and I will write the document with my own hand.” So too here. When the Israelites made the calf, the Holy One, blessed be He, felt the same way. He said to Moses: Go, get thee down, for thy people have dealt corruptly. Whereupon he replied: They are Your people and Your inheritance. Then the Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moses: This act proves that The ox knoweth his owner (Isa. 1:3). The Holy One, blessed be He, said to the calf: Who made you? The calf answered: The mixed multitude that departed from Egypt with the Israelites, for it is written about them: Whose flesh is as the flesh of asses (Ezek. 23:20). Then the Holy One, blessed be He, said: Did I not tell you: Go, get thee down, for thy people that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt have dealt corruptly (Exod. 32:7) and have made the golden calf. My people did not do it, as it is said: But Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider (Isa. 1:3). Immediately Moses arose and pleaded in their defense: O Lord God, destroy not Thy people and Thine inheritance that Thou hast redeemed through Thy greatness (Deut. 9:26). And he went ahead and broke the tablets. When the Holy One, blessed be He, became reconciled, He told him: Go, hew these two tablets of stone.