여호수아 24:26의 주석

And Yehoshua wrote, etc.¹²What were the words that Yehoshua wrote and where did he write them? It might be inferred that he wrote the words of his admonishment to the people and inserted them in the Sefer Torah of Moshe, but we know this is not true. According to Targum Yonasan— And Yehoshua wrote these words, and concealed them in the Sefer Torah of God.¹³According to Targum Yonasan, He merely placed them where the Sefer Torah was kept, which was in the Ark. In Maseches Makos,¹⁴ 11a. two Amoraim argue [about what Yehoshua wrote]. One says that it refers to the eight verses from ‘And Moshe died’ until ‘in view of all of Yisroel,’ for the Sefer Torah was incomplete and he [Yehoshua] completed it.¹⁵See Devorim 34:5-12. These verses describe the passing of Moshe. Could Moshe have written them himself? How could he have written them while he was alive when they were not yet true? Moshe could not have written that he had died when it had not yet happened. This Amora says therefore that the final eight verses were written by Yehoshua. The other one says that this refers to the chapter of the cities of refuge¹⁶See above, Chapter 20. which he wrote in his book [Sefer Yehoshua] as they were written in the Sefer Torah.

Under the doorpost. This is translated according to Targum Yonasan, תְּחוֹת אַלְתָא. הָאַלָה refers to the door post of the entrance, as it is said,¹⁷I. Melachim 6:31. “the doorposts were a fifth, and¹⁸Yechezkeil 40:10. the doorposts had one measure.” Other say that [הָאַלָה means ‘the oak tree’] and it refers to the oak near Shechem which is written regarding Yaakov,¹⁹See Bereishis 35:4. As Yaakov was preparing to return to his father, Yitzchok, in the Holy Land, he instructed that all idols and earrings were to be given to him and he buried them under the oak tree near Shechem. “And Yaakov hid them beneath the oak.”

Which is in the Sanctuary of Adonoy.²⁰But the Sanctuary had not yet been built. Since the Ark was brought there [it is referred to as the Sanctuary] as it stated above,²¹Verse 1. ‘And they stood before God.