[Avodah] Numbers 20:11 and Exodus 17:6

[Jay F. Shachter]

> 
>>  Exodus 17:6 describes water
>> coming from a tsur, nearly 40 years earlier, but that was not an
>> occasion when Moshe sinned.  The Zohar was clearly and obviously
>> referring to Numbers 20:11 and not to Exodus 17:6, so your question
>> astonishes me.
> 
> On the contrary, if this were so then this Zohar should have been in
> Bamidbar, not in Shemos!
> 

This is fairly put.  The truth is that I did not read the cited Zohar.
I read an article posted by a member of this mailing list, who cited a
Zohar, and asserted that it supported the proposition that by using
the word "tsur" in Shirath Ha'azinu, Moshe was alluding to his sin.
Inasmuch as his sin (in Numbers 20:11) involved a sela`, not a tsur,
this caused great astonishment.  If, however, it was not the Zohar
that failed to notice the distinction between "sela`" and "tsur", but,
rather, the member of this mailing list citing the Zohar who failed to
notice the distinction, then the astonishment disappears.  Perhaps
that is what I should have assumed to begin with.


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