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Moshe Rabbeinu did not allow himself to become angered over the
request of the two shevatim who wished to remain east of the Jordan,
although they were deserving of it. He veered from his usual custom and
did not confer with Hashem regarding their request.
Moshe knew that the quality of anger is abominable and liable to make
him forget the halachah. Therefore, he made sure to admonish these
shevatim gently.

Moshe Rabbeinu did not ask for Hashem’s advice, for it was Hashem’s
When Bnei Yisrael brought before Moshe the gold of the Midianite voice which emitted from Moshe’s throat. This was because Moshe was
women whom they had taken captive, he rebuked them severely. He felt able to preserve Hashem’s Shechinah within himself by distancing himself
that they should not have taken these women captive, for they posed a from the trait of anger.
spiritual threat. Bnei Yisrael had already sinned once with devastating
results; they should have been more careful.

Moshe chastised them, stating that although they had not actually sinned
with these women, they had certainly entertained improper thoughts
regarding them. Wrong thoughts can be worse than sin itself. After one
sins, he is beset with remorse and does teshuvah. But one does not see the
necessity of doing teshuvah for merely thinking wrong thoughts. He
therefore continues following the lusts of his heart.
“The children of Reuven and the children of
Bnei Yisrael brought the jewels as atonement for the improper thoughts Gad had abundant livestock – very great. They
that they had previously entertained. The words “every fashioned vessel” saw the land of Yazer and the land of Gilad, and
teaches us that wrong thoughts are the tools which eventually cause one behold! – the place was a place for livestock
to do the actual sin itself.
They said: If we have found favor in your eyes,
“The eye sees and the heart desires…” One must guard his eyes very
well, so that he should not fall into negative thoughts, which can let this land be given to your servants as a
germinate into misdeeds. heritage; do not bring us across the Jordan”
(Bamidbar 32:1)