Cytowanie Komentarza do Samuela II 13:32

AND THE ETERNAL PUT A WORD IN BALAAM’S MOUTH. Some commentators¹²³I have not identified these commentators. See, however, my Hebrew commentary, p. 294, Note 22, for a similar opinion found in the Zohar. explain that Balaam did not understand the words [he said], but G-d filled him with words and said to him: “Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak,¹²²Verse 5. for the words will come forth [automatically] from your mouth.” Perhaps this is also the opinion of our Rabbis, who have said:¹²⁴Tanchuma, Balak 12; Bamidbar Rabbah 20:16. “He shaped his mouth and formed it [so that he would speak as He desired], like a person who fixes a nail onto a board. Rabbi Eleazar says: It was an angel that spoke: Rabbi Yehoshua says: etc.”¹²⁵“It was the Holy One, blessed be He, that spoke through the mouth of Balaam” (ibid.). But it does not appear to me to be correct [that Balaam did not know what he was saying], because he said [that he] heareth the words of G-d; seeth the vision of the Almighty.⁹⁷Further, 24:4. But the meaning of [the word] ‘vayasem’ (and He put) is “instruction,” signifying He taught him the words so that he should recite them with his mouth, and he should not forget or omit any part of it, similar to [the expression], teach thou it the children of Israel; ‘simah’ (put it) in their mouths.¹²⁶Deuteronomy 31:19. This means: let them know the words of this song by heart (Ibn Ezra). Similarly, for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been ‘sumah’ (‘put; determined’).¹²⁷II Samuel 13:32.

and ye perish in the way, For His wrath will soon be kindled: – Soon, because ye continue in your wickedness, His anger will burn upon you, as if to say, If ye do not quickly repent. And the interpretation of and ye perish in the way is as (in the verse) “and the way of the wicked shall perish” (Ps. 1:6). And behold the way perishes and they are perishing because of their way which is perishing, as “an oak fading as to its leaves” (Is. 1:30). Because the leaves are fading the oak is called a fading one. And so, “the torn of clothes” (2 Sam. 13:31(2)), and elsewhere, for the clothes are torn and not they (i.e. the wearers), and they are called torn because of their clothes which are torn. And so (Jer. 41:5), “Shaven as to their beards and rent of clothes” and other similar instances. And he says: