[Avodah] V'asu laHEM tsitsis

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 04:06:44PM -0400, Zvi Lampel via Avodah wrote:
> (BeMidbar 13: 38 ff.) ''And Hashem said to Moshe, saying, speak to the
> bnei Yisrael and SAY TO THEM: Make for THEM (asu laHEM) tsitsis...And it
> shall be TO YOU v'hayah (laCHEM) for tsitsis...''
> 
> Shouldn't it be "Make for YOU (laCHEM)--in the first sentence, as it is in
> the second? Who were they to make them for?

It would seem to read as HQBH telling Moshe to tell them *that* they
should make tzitzis and -- direct quote, no that" -- repeat this
explanation verbatum, "it should be for you..."

Maybe because making tzitzis for the first time will require
demonstration, it couldn't be relayed in words alone. Hashem was telling
Moshe that the words he is to write in the Chumash isn't enough, make
sure there is enough TSBP / halakhah leMoshe miSinai for them to be
able to do it. Or maybe there is some other reason Msohe was given an
idea to relay to the Jews about the making, but the exact words of the
accompanying mussar shmuess.

But I would shift your question from being about the word use to being
about the implications of that word use.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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