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mitzvot, they would be banished from the Land, as Yirmeyahu, indeed,
lamented, “How does she sit alone?”

Moshe repeated all the mitzvot to Bnei Yisrael. Most of the nation that
“How can I alone carry your contentiousness, had stood at Har Sinai was already gone. He was speaking to a new
your burdens, and your quarrels?” generation, who had not heard these mitzvot first-hand. Moreover,
Hashem wanted anyone who had questions to speak up now, before they
(Devarim 1:12)
would enter the Land. Settling Eretz Yisrael demands whole-hearted
fulfillment of the mitzvot, no questions asked.
“It was in the fortieth year.” The word used here is , a term of
anguish. Moshe was reminding Bnei Yisrael of the sin of the spies, which
caused them to wander in the Wilderness for forty years. They were also
told that because on the ninth of Av they had cried for nothing, that day
would be slated as a day of weeping for generations, with the fall of the
Beit Hamikdash.
Lashon hara about Eretz Yisrael caused the destruction of the Beit
Hamikdash. “After he had smitten Sichon” implies that the way to combat
Sichon/the Yetzer Hara is through Torah and mitzvah observance.
“Turn and journey” means that one should never allow himself to be in a
situation where he is turned off from mitzvah performance. Bnei Yisrael
should spend their days traveling the trails of Torah. The letters of the
word can be transposed to spell the word . “Who is strong? He
who subdues his personal inclination.”

“How can I alone carry your contentiousness,
your burdens, and your quarrels?”

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