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In striking the rock, Moshe wished to impart the message that only 4 dvarim
Hashem can affect nature through speech. He did not want the people to
believe he was a deity. Why, then, was he punished so severely?
Hashem felt that Moshe had deprived the nation of the lesson that one
who sanctifies himself through Torah receives supernatural powers, which
can even change the course of nature.

Aside from the sin of Mei Merivah, Hashem added on the sin of the
Golden Calf. Moshe had allowed the Eirev Rav to join the nation, and
they were the ones who initiated this sin.
Hashem arranged Moshe’s sin in order to prevent him from entering Eretz
Yisrael, which would have proven detrimental to the entire nation.
Hashem had originally planned that only the dead of Eretz Yisrael would
arise at techiyat hameitim. With Moshe’s burial outside the borders of
Eretz Yisrael, he allowed even those buried outside its borders to merit
resurrection of the dead.
Why did Hashem arrange for sin to be the cause of Moshe’s denial to
enter the Land? He wanted to teach us, through Moshe’s experience, that