The Journal of Love |
Parshat Masei is written like a traveler’s diary, journaling all of the places that B’nai Yisrael visited.
The “journal” begins with the following words (Bamidbar 33:1):
These are the journeys of B’nai Yisrael who went out of Egypt in organized groups under the leadership of Moshe and Aharon.
Rashi brings Rabbi Moshe HaDarshan’s commentary:
Why were these journeys recorded? To make God’s benevolence known. For although he decreed to move them about and cause them to wander in the wilderness, do not say that they wandered and were moved about from journey to journey for all 40 years and had no rest- for........