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371) “A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” “The Lord is my shepherd,” my shepherd. As the shepherd leads the flock to a good grazing site, a lush grazing site in a place of springs, and straightens their walk with righteousness and justice, so does the Creator, as it is written, “He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters, He restores my soul.”
372) It is the way of the shepherd to lead his flock with righteousness, to remove them from robbery, to lead them in plains, and the rod is always in his hand lest they turn to the right or to the left.
379) “And came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb,” he alone, without the flock. When that stone that pulls and receives iron sees it; the iron jumps on it. So were Moses and Mount Sinai. When they saw each other, he jumped on it, as it is written, “And came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.”
388) When Moses entered Mount Sinai, why did it appear to him in a flame of fire, which is Din? At that time, it was the time that caused. This was a time of Din, the time of Minchah [afternoon prayer]. Everything—the core of fire and the name Horeb, and the bush—was rooted into one stem. It is written, “And came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb,” and it is written, “At Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath,” and also, “And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.” This means that since they were destined to be as the bush, “Like cut thorns which are burned in the fire.” The Creator caused Israel to be destined to sin there and to be as the bush. This is why He appeared in the flame of fire, which is Din, which burns the wicked, as it is written, “Like cut thorns which are burned in the fire.”
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