신명기 29:1의 무사르

Another difficulty is why Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish stresses that "Moses recorded it for us." Did not Moses record every single word in the Torah and not just these few lines? Another difficulty is that the position of the word רק in Genesis is before the word אני, whereas in Leviticus the word קדש precedes the word כי. In Deuteronomy, the word רק also precedes the reference to G–d. The word אתמהא, "strange," with which Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish describes this whole comment is also peculiar. Why did he not simply say יכול כמוני, I could have thought: "just like Me!" What need was there for the word אתמהא? Rabbi Shimon does not add that word when referring to the erroneous assumption we could have made when reading the commandment to become holy in Leviticus! Another difficulty is that the Midrash did not bother to spell out what exactly we were to learn from the wicked Pharaoh concerning דברים גדולים וקדושים, great and holy matters!