ציטירנדיקער פּירוש אויף תהילים 94:16

מִֽי־יָק֣וּם לִ֭י עִם־מְרֵעִ֑ים מִֽי־יִתְיַצֵּ֥ב לִ֝י עִם־פֹּ֥עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃

װער װעט אױפֿשטײן פֿאַר מיר אַקעגן די שלעכטסטוער?װער װעט זיך שטעלן פֿאַר מיר אַקעגן די טוער פֿון אומרעכט?

Alon Bakhut

"She weeps bitterly." This is explained based on the words of our Sages: "You cried a baseless cry...," referring to the time of the spies, which is why there is weeping now as well. The continuation of the verse, "all her friends have betrayed her," seems to suggest that the reason this perpetual weeping was established for generations is because of the baseless crying that occurred then.
However, it can be explained as follows: The commentators have noted that because of the decree concerning the spies, which declared that the generation of the wilderness would not enter the land, it was also decreed that Moses would die in the wilderness, as it is written, "The Lord was angry with me because of you" (Deuteronomy 1:37). The incident at the waters of Meribah was merely a pretext. It is known that if Moses had entered the Land of Israel, the Temple would never have been destroyed.
Thus, the lament "You cried a baseless cry" caused the death of Moses in the wilderness, and from this stemmed the weeping for generations, for unfortunately, our beloved Temple was destroyed, as mentioned above. The reason the Temple would not have been destroyed had Moses entered the land is that no other prophet stood in the breach for Israel and gave his life for them as Moses did. All other prophets, when they saw that Israel strayed from God, increased their anger toward Israel. But Moses, God's servant, was different—he gave his life for them and prayed on their behalf, as it is written, "And if not, erase me from Your book" (Exodus 32:32).
Therefore, when Moses died, God said, "Who will rise up for me against evildoers?" (Psalms 94:16), for there was none like Moses, His chosen one, who stood in the breach before Him. This is the meaning of the lament: "She weeps bitterly," referring to the weeping that began in the days of the spies, which led to the weeping for generations, as mentioned above. The reason given is that "there is no comforter for her, all her friends have betrayed her," meaning the prophets of Israel, except for Moses. Understand this well.
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Da'at Zekenim

וימת שם משה, “Moses died there.” According to Psalms 118,17, Moses said to G–d at the time of his death: “I do not wish to die but to live and to proclaim the works of the Lord.” G–d replied that it was impossible to fulfill his wish, as it has been decreed that every human being must die. Thereupon Moses said to G–d: “I have one request to make from You so that they can all see that there is absolutely no one like You;” before he could articulate his request all the gates of the earth and the great deep opened up, and this is what Moses meant when he had said to the people in Deuteronomy 4,39: וידעת היום והשבות אל לבבך כי ה' הוא האלוקים “you will know this day and it will register in your hearts, that the Lord is the G–d;” as soon as he had gotten to this word, Moses added: אין עוד, “no one else.” As soon as G–d had heard Moses saying these words, He said to him: “since you have said the words: אין עוד,“I will testify with the same words that there never has been nor ever will be again a prophet comparable to your stature.” (verse 10 in our chapter). Immediately following this conversation, G–d, personally, accompanied by the three angels Michael, Gavriel and Zagzagel (the angel who teaches fetuses in their mother’s wombs the Torah) descended to earth, Gavriel prepared the bier on which Moses was to die, Michael spread a red woolen sheet over it, whereas Zagzagel arranged his headrest on the bier. G–d instructed Moses how to arrange the various parts of his body when he laid down on the bier, and as soon as he had done so, He spoke to the soul of Moses, reminding it that it had been granted the privilege of being a guest in Moses’ body for one hundred and twenty years, but saying that the time had now come for it to return to its place in the celestial regions. The soul replied in a very respectful manner to G–d that although it was aware that G–d had created it in order to reside within Moses’ body, the fact that during all these one hundred and twenty years she had enjoyed being hosted by the purest body a body that had never been host to any worm or otherwise destructive creature. Even flies had never settled on Moses’ skin. The body she inhabited had never been jealous or envious of a fellow human being. Seeing that she had been privileged to inhabit such a body, the soul said, she was very reluctant to leave such a body. After having listened to the soul, G–d again asked her not to delay His timetable. He promised that soul to promote it to the loftiest rank of all the creatures in the celestial spheres. Its permanent seat would be immediately below His throne, next to the highest ranking groups of angels. Still, the soul responded that it would prefer to remain in Moses’ body to sharing such honours with the highest ranking angels. It pointed out that from those groups of angels several when becoming residents on earth, i.e. Uzza and Azael, had become more corrupt and had lusted after human females until G–d had been forced to put an end to them. Moses, on the other hand, when G–d had appeared to him at the burning bush, never once continued to have sexual relations with his wife. As a result, she, this soul, begged to remain part of Moses. In view of all this, G–d decided to remove Moses’ soul from his body by kissing it. This is the meaning of the word: על פי ה', “by the mouth of the Lord”, at the end of our verse. At that hour, G–d Himself broke out weeping, seeing that He had been forced to remove Moses from earth through a decree issued by oath a long time ago; this is alluded to in Psalms 94,16: מי יקום לי עם-מרעים מי יתיצב לי עם פועלי און, G–d mourned the fact that from now on “who will take My part against evil men, who will stand up for Me against wrongdoers?” The angels in heaven were also weeping and saying: והחכמה מאין תמצא ונעלמה מעיני כל חי, “but where can wisdom now be found, and where is now the source of understanding?” The heavens were weeping and saying: אבד חסיד מן הארץ, “the pious have vanished from earth.” (Michah 7,2). The author continues in this vein, quoting all parts of creation bemoaning the death of Moses as an irreplaceable loss for mankind. (The sources of the above statements are found in Devarim Rabbah at the end, and in Yalkut Shimoni on the portion of Vayelech) Concerning the last eight verses in the Torah, their author, and how to relate to this as it is difficult to attribute them as having been written by Moses either posthumously or before his death, the Talmud tractate Baba batra folio 15, suggests as a possible way to deal with this problem, that they be read by individuals but not as part of the public Torah reading. This line in the Talmud is interpreted differently by a number of commentators. Seeing that we read these lines in the normal fashion, there is no point in challenging what has been accepted for many hundreds of years by all sections of orthodox Judaism.
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