Chasidut for Moed Katan 55:2

ר' אלעזר אמר אפילו שאר הנשים דכתיב (במדבר כ, א) ותמת שם מרים ותקבר שם סמוך למיתה קבורה

R'Eleazar also said tha Miriam also died by the Divine kiss [like Moses]: We interpret the expression 'there' [used at Miriam's death] in the same sense as that of the expression 'there' used of Moses.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXXIV, 5: So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab by the mouth of the Lord. In the is passage 'there' could have been omitted, and in the above passage we have also a superfluous 'there', which suggests the Gezerah shawah, v. Glos.');">³</span> Wherefore then is it not said about her [that she died] by the mouth of the Lord?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXXIV, 5: So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab by the mouth of the Lord. In the is passage 'there' could have been omitted, and in the above passage we have also a superfluous 'there', which suggests the Gezerah shawah, v. Glos.');">³</span> Because it would be unbecoming to say so. Said R'Ammi, Wherefore is the account of Miriam's death<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XX, I.');">⁴</span>

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