ציטירנדיקער פּירוש אויף מיכה 1:3

אני יוצא בתוך מצרים, “I will go out amongst Egypt,” Onkelos translates these words as “I will reveal Myself.” Our sages quote Micah 1,3 on this verse “G’d will leave His abode and He will come down and stride on the heights of the earth.” Talmud Yerushalmi Taanit 2,1 suggests that G’d will switch application of one of His attributes for another i.e. He will exit from one attribute and switch to another, in this instance the attribute of Justice.

V. 13. ירכיבהו על במותי ארץ. Wir haben bereits zu Bereschit bemerkt, daß במה nicht den Begriff Anhöhe überhaupt, sondern den einer solchen Anhöhe bedeutet, die als Unterlage und Standpunkt der Erhöhung des darauf sich Befindenden dient. במות ארץ ist daher nicht gleichbedeutend mit גבעות ארץ ,הרי ארץ, sondern drückt den Begriff solcher emporragender Höhen der Erde aus, deren Ersteigen das Ziel von Bestrebungen bildet. במות daher ja Ausdruck für alle angestrebte und erreichte hohe Stellungen. ועל במותי יעמידני ,ידריכני (Ps. 18, 34 u. Habakuk 3, 18), על במותימו תדרוך (Dewarim 33 29). Die stat. constr. plur. Form במתי weist auf eine Dualform des Plurals hin, wie יַרכְתֵי von יַרְכְתַיִם. Der einfache Plural von במה ist במות, auch im stat. constr. בָמות, so במות ארנון (Bamidbar 21, 29), במות בעל (daselbst 41). In ירכתים bezeichnet der Dualis den die beiden Längsseiten zusammenfassenden Hinterraum. במותי wären somit: Doppelhöhen, und ist in der Schreibweise unseres במתי zugleich das Merkmal des einfachen Plurals mit enthalten. Diese Dualform במתי kommt nur wie hier im Zusammenhange des Ersteigens oder Betretens von Höhen und zwar in bildlichem Sinne vor, והרבבתיך על במתי ארץ (Jes. 58, 14), ודורך על במתי ארץ (Amos 4, 13 u. Micha 1, 3), ודורך על במתי ים (Job. 9, 8), אעלה על במתי עב (Jes. 14, 15). Alle diese Stellen enthalten den Gedanken einer Erhabenheit, Macht, Herrschaft verleihenden Stellung. Die Dualform dürfte somit die Doppelbeziehung einer solchen Stellung ausdrücken. במתי ארץ ,ים ,עב von Gott: die mit der Hoheit über Erde, Meer und Himmel gegebene Doppelherrschaft über Natur- und Menschenwelt. במתי ארץ von Menschen: die auf der Höhe der irdischen Verhältnisse zu gewinnende Doppelfülle des materiell sinnlichen und geistig sittlichen Heils. Dass in unserer Stelle nicht an die Besitznahme eines räumlich hochliegenden Gebietes zu denken ist, das dürfte sich aus dem Vergleich mit dem ganz ähnlichen Satze (Jes. 58, 14) ergeben, wo die Schilderungen des durch ein pflichtgetreues jüdisches Leben zu gewinnenden segensreichen Heils in der Verheißung gipfeln: אז תתענג על ד׳ והרכבתיך על במותי ארץ. Bemerkenswert ist, daß dort wie hier neben der Dualform auch der einheitliche Plural durch die Schreibweise ausgedrückt ist. Es dürfte damit gesagt sein, daß das materiell sinnliche einerseits und andererseits das geistig sittliche Moment in den Zielen des Menschenstrebens doch im tiefen Grunde ein wesentlich Einheitliches bilden, das Eine nicht ohne das Andere erreichbar, beide in ganz gleicher Würdigung nur von dem einen Pflichtgefühle zu erringen sind, das die Basis aller Menschenbestrebungen zu bilden hat. Also:

THE CRY OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH. This is the cry of the oppressed, crying out and begging for help from the arm of their wickedness. It would have been proper for Scripture to say, “The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah I heard because it is great” or “The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very heavy.” But the purport of the verse is to state that “I will go down and see the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah and their sin which have become very great. If they have all sinned, I will bring the law to bear down on them, and if not, I will know who are the sinners.”
Concerning the matter of “going down and seeing,” Rashi said by way of derash:¹³⁵The homiletical interpretation of Scripture. “This teaches that judges are not to give decisions in cases involving capital punishment except after having carefully looked into the matter.”
According to the simple meaning of Scripture, the explanation is as follows: Since the Holy One, blessed be He, wished to reveal to Abraham the matter of Sodom and to inform him that there was none among them who did good, He said to him “Because it is great, the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah will I go down to see, meaning I have come to judge. If they have sinned, I will make an end of them, and if not, I shall know what I shall do to them: Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with strokes.”¹³⁶Psalms 89:33. He thus informed him that their judgment was not yet complete for now He will visit their sin and judge them. This is like the verse: The Eternal looketh from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any man of understanding, that did seek after G-d. They are all corrupt; they are together become impure.¹³⁷Ibid., 14:2-3.
Now Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra said concerning this¹³⁸Ibn Ezra’s comment is found in Verse 21 here. [“going down and seeing”] a mystery [i.e., a mysterious explanation], pleasing himself with foreign offspring.¹³⁹See Isaiah 2:6. Ramban says that “the mystery” suggested here by Ibn Ezra as an explanation of the verse comes to him from the philosophers who please themselves with theories which are “the offspring of aliens.” Ibn Ezra’s “mystery” explanation is that G-d’s knowledge of earthly matters is general, rather than detailed. Ramban rejects this concept as “foreign” to the Torah. I shall now intimate to you the opinion of those who received the truth. Our Rabbis have exposited¹⁴⁰Yerushalmi Ta’anith II, 1. from the verse, For behold, the Eternal cometh forth out of His place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth:¹⁴¹Micah 1:3. “He cometh forth and goeth from attribute to attribute; He cometh forth from the attribute of mercy, and goeth to the attribute of justice.” We interpret this matter similarly. And the Eternal said in His heart, “The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah, because it is great, I will go down from the attribute of mercy to the attribute of justice, and I will see in mercy if they have done according to the cry of it which is come unto Me through the attribute of justice, and if so, punishment; and if not, I will know and I will show mercy,” just as in the verse, And G-d knew.¹⁴²Exodus 2:25. He knew of the suffering of the children of Israel and directed His mercy upon them. Here, likewise, Ramban teaches that the word eida’ah (I will know) bespeaks Divine mercy. Now after Scripture tells of the knowledge of the Most High, it returns to the first matter and relates the story of how the men who glanced towards Sodom with the intention of going there and whom Abraham sent away arrived there. And Abraham, from the moment they left him until they arrived there, still stood before the Eternal for He called him and told him that the angels were those messengers who would destroy the place, as He had said. It was not necessary for Scripture to explain when Abraham stood before Him for from the moment He said, Shall I conceal it from Abraham,¹⁴³Verse 17 here. it is known that He told him.