[Avodah] V'zos Hab'racha

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 12:11:24PM -0400, Cantor Wolberg via Avodah wrote:
: The gemara, masechta Makkos brings a proof that there
: "Torah tziva lanu Moshe."
: This is how it is explained: Only 2 commandments were
: directly heard from God which were "I am the Lord Your God Who
: brought you out of the land of Egypt" and "Thou shalt have no other
: gods before Me." 
: After that all of the other mitzvot were heard by the people through Moshe.

: So the gematria of Torah is 611 (which they heard through Moshe) and
: the only 2 heard directly from God comprise the 613. The gemara goes on to
: explain that the first mitzvah ("I am the Lord your God") encompasses all of the
: 248 positive mitzvot and the second mitzvah ("Thou shalt have no 
: other gods") encompasses all of the 365 negative mitzvos.

The gemara is commenting on the fact that the first two diberos are
written in the first person (Anokhi Hashem ... al Panai) whereas the
others are in the third person.

Thus the medrash that the people couldn't handle the direct revalation
from G-d and at the end of the 2nd diberah begged Moshe to relay it
to them.

But I don't see anything in the gemara about the first diberah including
all the mitzvos asei, and the second all the lavin.

And, according to the Rambam, the first diberah isn't one of the 613. So
go figure out how /he/ understands the idea that 2 were not taught via
Moshe.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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