Related%20passage for Rosh Hashanah 5:2

וא"ר אבהו אל תקרי ויראו אלא וייראו כדריש לקיש דאמר ר"ל כי משמש בד' לשונות אי דילמא אלא דהא

He heard that Aaron had died and that the clouds of glory had departed, and he judged that it was now permitted to attack Israel; and this is intimated in the verse, And all the congregation saw [wa-yiru] that Aaron was dead,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XX, 29.');">²</span> [commenting on which] R'Abbahu said, Do not read wayiru, but wa-yerau [and they were seen],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., became visible, the clouds of glory having previously served as a screen to them.');">³</span>

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