1)

What did Moshe mean when he said "P'nu u'Se'u ha'Midbarah Derech Yam-Suf"?

1.

Rashi: He meant that, instead of traversing the width of Edom from south to north to enter Eretz Cana'an, they were to retrace their steps, to return towards the Yam-Suf 1 , and travel along the south of Har Se'ir, from west to east.

2.

Oznayim la'Torah: The Yam'Suf is divided into two sections, the western section - close to Egypt (next to Ra'amses), which they had crossed after leaving Egypt and the eastern section (next to Eilat and Etzyon-Gaver), where they had never been before and where Hashem now commanded them to hed towards. 2

1

Rashi (on 2:1): From where they left Egypt, south-west of Eretz Cana'an - because the Yam Suf extended to the east of Eretz Yisrael (Rashi in Sh'mos 10:19).

2

See Oznayim la'Torah.

QUESTIONS ON RASHI

2)

Rashi writes that we should have traversed the width of Edom to enter Eretz Cana'an. But Edom did not allow us to pass through their land (Chukas Bamidbar, 20:18), and we were not allowed to fight them (Devarim, 2:5)?

1.

Gur Aryeh citing Re'em 1 : Had Yisrael not sinned, Hashem would have caused Edom to allow us to pass through.

2.

Gur Aryeh: We would have gone near Edom, and passed it, but not through it.

1

I did not find this in our texts of Mizrachi. (PF)

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