출애굽기 33:23 주석: Rashi, Ramban, Sforno & Or HaChaim

והסרתי את כפי AND I WILL REMOVE MY HAND — The Targum renders this by ואעדי ית דברת יקרי “I will remove the guidance of My Glory”; it means: when I shall remove the guidance of My Glory from before thine eyes — to go right away from that place,

BUT MY FACE SHALL NOT BE SEEN — meaning the clear countenance, as I have explained.⁴⁹⁸Above, Verse 18. It is possible that the word achorai (My back — and thou shalt see ‘My back’) is of similar usage as in the verse, Thou hast hemmed me in behind and before,⁴⁹⁹Psalms 139:5. in accordance with the opinion of our Rabbis.⁵⁰⁰Based on this verse in Psalms the Rabbis have said (Berachoth 61 a) that Adam was originally created with two faces (see Vol. I, p. 76). Ramban’s application here of this saying of the Sages is Cabalistic.

וראית את אחורי, where you will be able to glimpse how all the celestial forces below My level of Divinity carry out their activities; but