Quoting%20commentary for Yoma 8:7

אמר מר ויקרא אל משה משה וכל ישראל עומדין מסייע ליה לר"א דאמר רבי אלעזר ויקרא אל משה משה וכל ישראל עומדין ולא בא הכתוב אלא לחלק לו כבוד למשה

happened after the giving of the Ten Commandments: 'The glory of the Lord abode on mount Sinai and the cloud covered him six days' 'him' meaning Moses- 'And He called unto Moses on the seventh day' to receive the remainder of the Torah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The other laws (beside the Ten Commandments) and the Oral Law.');">¹⁵</span> For if the thought should come to you that 'And the glory of the Lord abode' from the New Moon [of Sivan], so that 'And the cloud covered him' referred to the mountain, and 'The Lord called unto Moses on the seventh day' to receive the Ten Commandments, surely they had received the Torah on the sixth day already and also the cloud had departed on the sixth day! - R'Akiba, however, held with R'Jose that the Torah was given to Israel on the seventh.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that the 'Seventh day' refers to the seventh day on which the Torah was given.');">¹⁶</span> Quite in accord with R'Akiba's teaching is the statement<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. Ta'an. 26a.');">¹⁷</span>

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