Бамидбар 35:34 Комментарий: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Rashi, Ibn Ezra & Rav Hirsch

“In which I myself abide” [35:34]. The Holy One said: do not engage in flattery, because I am among you. Israel are beloved even when they are impure and even more so when the Shekhinah is among them, as the verse says, “which abides with them in the midst of their uncleanness” [Leviticus, 16:16]. Rabbi Nathan said: when Israel are, there the Shekhinah is among them. The Shekhinah was with them in Egypt. The Shekhinah was with them in Babylon. The Shekhinah is with us in this exile, as the verse says, “who is this coming from Edom” [Isaiah, 63:1]. When we will again go to Jerusalem, the Shekhinah will go with us, as the verse says, “then the Lord will restore” [Deuteronomy, 30:3]. This should soon come to pass. Amen and so may it be His will.

אשר אני שכן בתוכה [AND YE SHALL NOT DEFILE THE LAND] … IN WHICH I DWELL — It means: Do not do anything defiling to the land so that you will make Me dwell amidst its uncleanness,

You must not defile. The pollution should not defile the land, or alternatively it is a commandment: Since I dwell amongst you, it is not for the honor of the Land but for the honor of Yisroel, therefore Scripture says, for I Adonoy dwell among Bnei Yisroel.

‎'כי אני ה שכן בתוך בני ישראל FOR I, THE LORD, DWELL AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL — for even when they (the Israelites) are unclean My Shechinah remains amongst them (Sifrei Bamidbar 160:15).