Comentários de Citação sobre Números 9:3

Rabbi Eliezer said to him: Akiva! You are uprooting what is written in the Torah, “at twilight, offer it at its set time” (Numbers 9:3), both on week-days and on Shabbat. Rabbi Eliezer responds that the Torah explicitly mandates that the pesah be slaughtered on the fourteenth even if this is on Shabbat. Hence, the argument that Rabbi Akiva was trying to make in section six would directly contradict the Torah.

I have found the following comment in the Mechilta on 12,43: "Scripture deals here with both the Passover of Egypt and the Passover of subsequent generations, these are the words of Rabbi Yoshiah. Rabbi Yonathan says that the passage deals with the Passover in Egypt. Whence do I know what rules apply to subsequent Passovers? Scripture says: "in accordance with all its statutes and all its social laws you shall perform it" (Numbers 9,3). According to the foregoing all the Tannaim of the period agreed that the paragraph in question speaks about observance of the Passover in Egypt, thus Ibn Ezra's words are to be disregarded completely.

“Keep the charge of the Lord your God, etc.” [2:3]. You should observe the commandments of your God and walk in His ways, to observe His laws and ordinances. Therefore, the verse says “in His ways.” This means, good attributes, to be compassionate to one’s fellows, just as is the Holy One. “His laws.” That is to say, commandments that we do not know the reasons why the Holy One commanded them, like agricultural mixtures, mixtures of wool and linen and eating pork. If the Holy One had not forbidden them, why should I not have eaten pork? Why should I not have worn a mixture of wool and linen? These commandments are all rules and rites [Numbers, 9:3]. “His ordinances,” means to give laws and proper judgment. “His testimonies,” means keeping the Sabbath and festivals properly. They are called a testimony that the Holy One created the world in six days and rested on the Sabbath. Solomon should observe all of these things, says David your father. You should be intelligent and successful in all the paths that you will follow.²Radak, I Kings, 2:3, with interpolations.

to do evil Heb. הרע, like לְהָרֵעַ, to do evil. [Rashi explains this because the preposition is absent in Hebrew.] Scripture does not have to write מֵהָרֵעַ, desist from doing evil, for so does the Biblical language treat the expression of חֲדָלָה, stopping, [e.g.,] “and he failed to make (לַעֲשׂוֹת) the Pesach” (Num. 9:13); “until he stopped counting (לִסְפֹּר)” (Gen. 41:49). That is to say, the counting stopped, the making failed, here too, stop the evildoing.