Admittedly, she looked different, but then on her long trip the doll had seen many remarkable sights and gone through many searing experiences. Life had changed her appearance. Jack Wertheimer, ed. Of the many meanings in this profound parable I wish to focus on the most obvious: that a transformative experience alters us externally as well as internally.
This is the point of the closing narrative of our parashah. The second time that Moses ascends Mount Sinai to get the Ten Commandments —that is after the debacle of the golden calf—the Torah uncharacteristically gives us a profusion of details. In contrast to the brevity of description pertaining to his first ascent Exodus ; ; , the Torah now divulges that Moses stayed atop the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights without eating a morsel of bread or drinking a sip of water Thereafter, Moses would cover his face with a veil, except when he entered the Tent of Meeting to talk with God or when he addressed the nation This exceptional passage is marked by vocabulary equally rare.
Hence the mistranslation by the Vulgate to the effect that Moses came down with horns, a sign of sanctity. The description interfaces with two earlier passages.
Transformed by his experience, Moses stands out among mortals, a leader without need of special garments. The visible manifestation of his inner state sets him apart from the ordinary or conventional. The midrash imagines the change to have occurred in one of two ways. God asked Moses to lead his people out of slavery in Egypt to the Promised Land. Moses was at first reluctant, thinking that the Israelites would not believe he had heard the word of God.
Why was Moses not allowed to enter the Promised Land? Moses was not allowed to enter the Promised Land because when God told him to speak to a rock so that it would send out water for the Israelites to drink in the desert, Moses struck the rock with his staff instead. In another exegesis, Moses had ascended to the first heaven until the seventh, even visited Paradise and Hell alive, after he saw the Divine vision in Mount Horeb. As amazing as it seems, one possible and I think very likely reason that these two men were present for the transfiguration was so that they could finally see the face of God.
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