Commentary for Yoma 7:11

ר"ע אומר וישכון כבוד ה' מראש חודש

high priest needed such removal but all future high priests do not require it; come and hear:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Come and hear', a technical term for refuting a wrong opinion or repelling an attack.');">²²</span> 'As hath been done this day etc.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'So the Lord commanded you', i.e., for all the future.');">²³</span> 'We have a teaching in accord with Resh Lakish': Moses went up in a cloud, was covered by the cloud, and was sanctified by the cloud in order that he might receive the Torah for Israel in sanctity, as it is writte And the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXIV, 16.');">²⁴</span> this took place after the Ten Commandments, which were at the beginning of the forty days,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXIV, 18. Cf. ibid. XIX, 3,9,25.');">²⁵</span> this is the view of R'Jose the Galilean. R'Akiba said [with reference to] 'And the glory of the Lord abode' from the beginning of the [third] month, and the cloud wa-yekasehu [covered it],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Wa-yekasehu may be translated 'covered him' or 'covered it', Moses or the mountain, the Hebrew word har (mountain) being also masculine.');">²⁶</span> i.e., the mountain,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Moses came down to speak to Israel (Ex. XIX, 3f) , hence it would be wrong to say that the cloud covered him six days before the Revelation.');">²⁷</span>

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