[Avodah] Parshas Masei - a few ha'oros

[MPoppers at kayescholer.com]

In Avodah Digest V23#152, RSBA noted:
> 1) The Baal Haturim on 'Vayachnu beMidbar Sin" (33:11) writes that
originally called Midbar Sin, a Yud was added to the name (Sinai)
after the Aseres Hadibros were given there. (Similar the Chizkuni)
The Tosefes Brocho is puzzled by this as 6 pesukim later we
find "Vayachnu beMidbar Sinai" - which lechoreh shows that
these are 2 distinct locations. <
Kan lifnei n'sinas hadibros, kan l'achar n'sinas hadibros.

> (He also refers to Beshalach 17:1
"Vayovo'u...el Midbar Sin asher bein Elim uvein Sinai".) <
He may be understanding "Midbar Sin" as being between "Eilim" and "Sinai,"
but another way of understanding that pasuq (as per a commentary on 4-33:11
quoted in the Artscroll Davis Edition of the BhT by R'AGold [fn 17]) is
that "Midbar Sin" was an area which stretched from "Eilim" on one end to
"Sinai" on the other end (with the places listed in 4-33:12-15 in between
those two endpoints).  BTW, although I can understand why RSBA wrote
"Beshalach 17:1," the pasuq is 2-_16_:1, and BhT on P'Mas'ei is repeating
what he wrote on P'B'shalach.

> 2) Talking of the TB, on (35:32) "Velo Sikchu Kofer lonus el ir
miklotoy", Rashi and others explain that this refers to a killer beshogeg
who may not ransom his way out of the Ir Miklot.
The TB suggests that it refers to a Meizid who may try to pay his
way out of being chayev meeseh by being allowed in to an Ir Miklot. <
But the rotzeiach b'meizid is the subject of the previous pasuq (and see
RaMBaN and Da'as Z'qeinim ad loc)!

> 3) Rashi (34:8) dh "Mehor Hahor" mentions Antochia, which Artscroll calls
Antioch. Presumably this refers to such a place in Eretz Yisroel.
(Wikipedia has a couple.) <
TY echoes RaShY; TYbU calls "Chamas" T'verya.  (This being Avodah, I won't
make any jokes re the current PA situation, but the meivin may fill in the
gap.)

All the best from
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager
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