Musar su Esodo 23:21
הִשָּׁ֧מֶר מִפָּנָ֛יו וּשְׁמַ֥ע בְּקֹל֖וֹ אַל־תַּמֵּ֣ר בּ֑וֹ כִּ֣י לֹ֤א יִשָּׂא֙ לְפִשְׁעֲכֶ֔ם כִּ֥י שְׁמִ֖י בְּקִרְבּֽוֹ׃
Abbi riguardo a lui e dagli ascolto, nol disubbidire; poiché non può perdonare le vostre colpe, perocchè il mio nome è in lui [cioè ogni suo comando gli è da me ispirato].
Shenei Luchot HaBerit
G–d responded: "Indeed My Presence will go." To the request that this should occur already at this time, G–d said this will occur at a time והניחותי לך, "when I will will grant rest, i.e. in the land of Israel itself, not on the journey." A parallel meaning of the word והניחותי may be found in Deut. 25,19, in conjunction with the duty to wipe out Amalek after G–d has given the Jewish people rest, i.e. בהניח from all their enemies becomes operative. You might ask that if G–d had already told Moses that His Presence in the form of the Ineffable Name would be revealed once the Jewish people were in the land of Israel, what would have been the advantage if Moses had been allowed to bring the Jewish people to the land of Israel? In either event there would be a manifestation of the Ineffable Name in the land of Israel? Under the leadership of the angel who accompanied Joshua G–d's Presence as the Ineffable Name became manifest only within the precincts of the Holy Temple. Had Moses been allowed to bring the Jewish people into the Holy Land, such a presence of the Ineffable Name would have been manifest throughout the Holy Land, not only within the precincts of the Holy Temple.
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Shenei Luchot HaBerit
The crown of Torah, known as תפארת, refers to the written Torah which was deposited in the Holy Ark, otherwise known as ארון הברית אדון כל הארץ, "the ark of the covenant with the Lord of the whole earth. This name is a reference to the שכינה, i.e. the ark containing תפארת, and is concealed therein as explained by the Zohar. The border or crown around the Holy Ark is an allusion to the אשת חיל עטרת בעלה, "The woman of valour, crown of her husband" (Proverbs 12,4). When the Torah (Exodus 25,12) commands: "You shall cast for it (the golden altar) four rings of gold," this is an allusion to the four legs of the מרכבה, chariot, which carries the presence of the שכינה. The dimensions of the tablets, -2 tablets each of 6 handbreadths by 6 handbreadths by 3 handbreadths each,- add up to 72 handbreadths cubed, i.e. 216. The number 216 is reminiscent of the Ineffable name of G–d spelled as words, using the letter י in such a spelling. [Example: יוד-הי-ויו-הי. This gives you 72. When you cube this number, as we did with the measurements of the tablets, you obtain the number 216. Ed.] The written Torah is the foundation, יסוד, of the Ineffable Name, and it reposed within the Holy Ark, as hinted at when G–d said: כי שמי בקרבו, "For My Name is within it" (Exodus 23,21). This means that G–d's Ineffable Name is in the Sanctuary, that G–d is found within His Torah. This is where you find the crown of the good name. From that source Israel [potentially any Israelite. Ed.] was crowned with the crown of Torah.
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