Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Musar for Sotah 67:6

עודם בירדן אמר להן יהושע הרימו לכם איש אבן אחת על שכמו למספר שבטי ישראל וגו' וכתיב (יהושע ד, ו) למען תהיה זאת אות בקרבכם כי ישאלון בניכם מחר לאמר מה האבנים האלה לכם וגו' סימן לבנים שעברו אבות את הירדן

It was to be a monument for the children that their fathers had crossed the Jordan. While they were still in the Jordan, Joshua said to them. Take you hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night etc.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Josh. IV, 3. ');"><sup>11</sup></span> It is possible [to think that they were to deposit them] in any lodging place; therefore there is a text to state, 'Where ye shall lodge this night'.

Shenei Luchot HaBerit

[The author digresses here to explain the symbolism of different kinds of water, and how the "wrong" kind of "water," or water which has not been put in the service of the right side of the emanations, will prove destructive, fatal. He also refers to the river Dinor a river of fire mentioned in the Book of Daniel which, according to Kabbalistic teachings, serves as a ritual bath for the souls once they emerge from judgment in purgatory. I am skipping most of this excursion into deep mysticism. Ed.]
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