פּירוש אויף דברים 3:27

“You shall not go across yonder Jordan” [3:27]. The Holy One said to Moses: you will not cross the Jordan, and even your bones will not cross it. Moses said: Lord of the Universe, why am I worse than Joseph the righteous one, that his bones were taken to the land of Canaan? The Holy One responded: did you deny your land? When you came to Jethro, his daughters said: an Egyptian came and helped us draw the water. You, Moses, heard everything. They called you an Egyptian and you remained silent. You allowed yourself to be called by a foreign name. You should have said: I am a Jew. Therefore, you are not worthy to come into your land, since you disowned your own land. However, Joseph the righteous one, when the gentile woman, his master’s wife, wanted that he should sleep with her, she said about Joseph: my lord has brought a Jew, from the Jews. He wanted to sleep with me. He did not disown that he was a Jew and said: I was stolen from the Jews, from the Jewish land. Therefore, he was worthy to be buried in the Jewish land. The Holy One said: when you, Moses, will be buried among the people in the wilderness, because of your merit they will come into the land of Israel. A parable. Someone loses a penny or other copper coins in the dark. He reflects, if I were to ask people to provide light to search for my cheap coins, the people would not listen to me. That person went and threw a golden gulden among the ordinary coins and shouted, I lost a golden gulden. The people came immediately and provided a light. When he took the golden gulden, he also took the ordinary coins along with it. So too, the Holy One said to Moses: when you will be buried outside the land, you will take along all of Israel into the land of Israel. However, Jacob was worthy to be buried with his flesh and bones in the land of Israel. Joseph was worthy that his bones were buried in the land of Israel, but his flesh and skin decayed outside the land. Long after his death, the children of Israel carried him to the land of Israel.⁴Deuteronomy Rabbah, 2.8–9.

וראה בעיניך [LIFT UP THINE EYES …] AND SEE IT WITH THINE EYES — Thou didst request of Me, (v. 25) “Let me see the good land”; I will let thee see the whole of it (not the good territory alone), as it is said, (Deuteronomy 34:1) “And the Lord showed him all the land״ (cf. Sifrei Bamidbar 135).

עלה על ראש הפסגה, “ascend to the top of the summit;” if you were to ask who it is that will cross the Jordan with these people, command Joshua to do so. [The reader must appreciate that when Moses tells the people here that he had pleaded with G-d, his plea had been made immediately after he had been told that he would not be allowed to cross the Jordan, after he had struck the rock. (verse 28) 'עלה ראש הפסגה וגו, this is what G-d had told Moses already in the portion of Pinchas, Numbers 27,12 when He had said to him: עלה אל הר העברים, “ascend to the top of Mount Avarim.”