ציטירנדיקער פּירוש אויף במדבר 19:17

GO UP TO BETH-EL AND ABIDE THERE, AND MAKE THERE AN ALTAR. I do not know the significance of the expression, and abide there. Now it is possible that G-d commanded him to abide there at first in order to purify the camp from the idols taken from Shechem or from the dead they had touched, similar to, And encamp ye without the camp seven days,¹⁷⁶Numbers 31:19. Said to the soldiers who returned from the war against the Midianites. since they had not yet been commanded concerning the Waters of Sprinkling,¹⁷⁷Ibid., 19:17-19. Used in purification from the defilement of touching a dead body. and afterwards they were to make the altar. But Jacob was zealous in observing the commandment to be purified before he came to Beth-el. It may be that Jacob’s words, And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el,¹⁷⁸Verse 3 here. actually preceded the purification mentioned in the previous verse. And perhaps the command, and abide there, means that he was to direct his thought to cleaving to G-d.¹⁷⁹See Ramban, Deuteronomy 11, for further elucidation of this matter.

Entsündigungswasser. Quelwasser, das behufs der Reinigung einer Toten-Unreinheit mit Asche von der „roten Kuh“ gemischt ist, nach Num. 19, 17.

geeignet ist. Nur Quellwasser ist dafür geeignet (Num. 19, 17), vgl. auch weiter VIII, 8—11).

ביום טהרתו [THEN HE SHALL CLIP THE HAIR OF HIS HEAD] IN THE DAY OF HIS CLEANSING — i.e., on the day when he is being sprinkled with the מי חטאת, (the water containing the ashes of the Red Heifer; cf. Numbers 19:17). Or perhaps this is not so, but it means, on the eighth day when he is perfectly clean! It, however, continues: “on the seventh day [he shall clip it]”. But if it had written only “on the seventh day [he shall clip it]” I might have thought that he must clip his hair even if one had not sprinkled him for some reason or other! Scripture therefore also states “on the day of his cleansing [he shall clip the hair of his head]” (Sifrei Bamidbar 28:2).