קבלה אויף שמות 33:15

R. Isaac said: “I rose to open to my beloved”: this was in the days of Moses, during the whole of which there was no need of angel or messenger to guide Israel. “My beloved had withdrawn himself and was gone”: this was in the days of Joshua, as it is written, “Nay, but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come” (Joshua 5, 16).

R. Eleazar asked: ‘Why should he die? Cannot God separate them and let the other come and give her to him?’ He replied: ‘This is the kindness that God does with a man, that he should not see his wife in the hand of another. is not deserving, even though the woman is his by rights, the other is not removed to make way for him.

R. Eleazar asked: ‘Why should he die? Cannot God separate them and let the other come and give her to him?’ He replied: ‘This is the kindness that God does with a man, that he should not see his wife in the hand of another. is not deserving, even though the woman is his by rights, the other is not removed to make way for him.