<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Martin Brody <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martinlbrody@gmail.com" target="_blank">martinlbrody@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>A common error.<br></div>Try finding it in Nitzavim.<span></span></div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Or Eikev, Re'eih, Shoftim, or Ki Seitzei. Moshe's name appears seldom in Sefer Devarim, given that the bulk of it is written in the first person. The first to make the observation about Moshe's missing name likely saw no need to explicitly exclude Sefer Devarim. (Another chiluk that may or may not be interesting: Within the first four books, 38 of 43 parshiyos begin with the letter vav; in Sefer Devarim, only 4 of 11 do). Hence, the excursus regarding Nitzavim-Vayeilech, while interesting, has no impact on this drosh.</div>
<br></div>If one is uncomfortable basing a drosh on the relatively recent division of the sedros, he may prefer to note that the entire section extending from the mishkan to machatzis hashekel is encapsulated in one unit of "Vaydabeir Hashem el Moshe leimor", which runs on significantly longer than any other equivalent unit. One could argue that the building of the mishkan, bigdei kehunah, and chanukas ha-mishkan are sufficiently related so as to justify inclusion in one unit, regardless of the length, but given that the execution of the three topics are separated (first by the introduction to Pekudei, then by the entire topic of korbonos), there is certainly something to note in the absence of any sort of similar break-up of the text in question. <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Joshua Meisner<br></div></div>