ציטירנדיקער פּירוש אויף ירמיהו 2:23

And a general rule I will state — there are in the poems of Rabbi Eliezer haKalir, may he rest in glory, four difficulties. The first thing is that most of his poems are riddles and allegories. And I will use one of his poems^note In this case, Ansikha Malki, recited as part of the Malkhuyot service on Rosh haShanah. as an example — and it is: לראי יקפיל, וחדשים יכפיל, ליום זה פור הפיל, ומציון ימלוך Some interpret that the first word has a yod (ליראי) which would refer to the Messiah — before whom He will fold (יקפיל) the earth. וחדשים יכפיל would mean that He would halve the months of the year and speed his coming. But some say that it is without a yod (לראי), which means it is about taking away — as in "See (ראי) your way in the valley" (Jeremiah 2:23). וחדשים יכפיל — to remove. These are the new (חדשים) images that recently came.

the young camels of Midian Heb. בִּכְרֵי. [Jonathan renders:] הוֹגְנֵי. They are young camels. Comp. (Jer. 2:23) “a swift young camel (בִּכְרָה).”

וממתנה נחליאל, ומנחליאל במות, “from Matanah to Nachaliel, and from Nachaliel to Bamot.” Rabbi Yehudah (Midrash Tehillim 5) said that the Jewish people merited receiving the Torah as a result of their being in the desert (last word in verse 18). Unfortunately, at Matanah [the very site where they received this gift. Ed.] they acquired idolatry by saying: “these are your gods O Israel, etc.” (Exodus 32,4). The word מתנה referred to Moses giving the Torah to Israel (Exodus 31,18). The same Rabbi Yehudah reads the word במות not as “heights,” but as ב-מות, death; i.e. after having received the Torah (נחליאל a heritage from G’d) they became subject to death for violating this gift, this heritage, i.e. the Torah. He quotes Numbers 14,35: “in this desert they shall perish, they will die.” The words ובמות הגיא he understands as a reference to Moses having to die in the valley (compare Deut. 34,6: “He buried him there in the valley”).