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557) “Behold, I am sending an angel before you.” Israel, who are internality and cling to the Creator, are placed under the angel, who is externality. Moses said, “But I received Your guarantee that You would not part from him, that thanks to the Mitzvot of first fruit, You would not mingle externality with internality. Certainly, ‘If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.’ And how then will it be known that I and my people have been favored by You?” He will not ask about this verse being in the portion Ki Tissa [When You Take], since there is no “before and after” in the Torah.
558) The Creator said this thing only out of love for Israel, to reconcile with them. It is like a king who wished to go with his son and did not wish to leave him. His son came and feared asking the king to accompany him. The king spoke first and said, “So and so army commander will walk with you to keep you on the way.” And then he said, “Beware of him, for he is not a whole person.” His son said, “Then either I sit here or you walk with me and I do not part from you.”
So is the Creator. First, he said, “Behold, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on the way,” and then he said “Beware of him.” At that moment, Moses said, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.”
559) In that place, when the Creator said, “Behold, I am sending an angel before you,” Moses did not say a thing; he did not respond with even a word because here there was no separation from the Creator, for the angel was sent only for keeping. But there, however, it writes, “I will send an angel before you and I will drive out the Canaanite, for I will not go up in your midst.”
560) When did Moses reply? When he said, “I will send an angel before you,” after which it is written, “I will not go up in your midst.” And here it writes only, “For My angel will go before you,” and he does not interpret the matter, saying “For I will not go up in your midst.” This is why it is written here, “But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.” Thus, everything depends on the Creator and there is no separation here. This is why Moses did not reply here.
561) And if you say that in the two verses he is an angel in actual separation? Still, Moses did not reply to them because it was not the time. Even to the verse, “And I will send an angel before you,” after which it is written, “For I will not go up in your midst,” Moses did not reply at once. Rather, when it is written, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here,” he replied this to what is written, “My presence will go and I will give you rest.” It is so because then he could reply. In general, Moses did not want the angel, because it is written, “He said, ‘If now I have found favor in Your eyes, O Lord, I pray, let the Lord go along in our midst.’”
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