"Vayinachem Hashem al ha'Ra'ah". What happened to the prediction of the star Ra'ah?
"Vayinachem Hashem al ha'Ra'ah". What are the implications of the word ?ha?Ra?ah??
Ba?al ha?Turim (citing the Midrash ha?Gadol in Pasuk 25): It hints at the five sins that they commited in connectin with the Eigel ha?Zahav ? 1. ?Achlu Veshasu? (Pusuk 6; 2. ?Vayakumu Letzachek? (Pasuk 6; 3. ?Vayishtahavu? (Pasuk 8); 4. ?Vayizb?chu? (Pasuk 8); ?u?Mecholos? (Pasuk 19).
Why did Hashem retract only at this point?
Rashi (in Seifer ha?Pardes): Moshe Davened three Tefilos, and Hashem answered him when he mentioned the three Avos. 1
Rashi, Ibid.: Which is the reason that we say ?Ve'zocher Chasdei Avos? in the Amidah. Shabbos, 30a: And this is what Shelomoh ha?Melech was referring to in Koheles, 4:2 ?Ve'shavach Ani es ha?Meisim she?Kevar Meisu min ha?Chayim ? ?.
What are the implications of "Vayinachem Hashem al ha'Ra'ah ... "?
Oznayim la'Torah: Moshe Davened for two things: 1. That Hashem should not destroy Yisrael; 2. That He should keep His promise to give them the promised land. At this point Hashem answered only his first Tefilah; The second one He will answer after the second set of forty days. 1
Later in the Parshah. See 34:11.
How will we reconcile the current Pasuk "va'Yinachem Hashem", with the Pasuk in Balak Bamidbar (23:19) it says "Lo Ish Keil Viyechazev u'Ven Adam Veyisnecham"?
Bechor Shor (Bereishis 6:7): There are three kinds of retraction. 1. Sometimes a person promises and is able to fulfill, but does not want to - "Ish Viyechazev ". 2. Sometimes he thinks that he can fulfill but he erred and is unable to - "u'Ven Adam Veyisnecham". 3. Hashem does retract when he decrees evil - like He did by Ninveh, and they repent, or if He decreed good, and later man sins. 1 That retraction is due to man's change.
Rosh (Bereishis 6:6): This is because He judges man according to his merits at the time, as the Navi writes in Yirmiyah 18:7-10 (Da'as Zekenim Bamidbar 23:19, citing Bechor Shor).
