- Moshe told B'nai Yisrael that if they would follow G-d's commandments, He would remove from them all sickness and the evil diseases they had had in Egypt. What was to become of those diseases?
G-d would lay them upon those who hated Israel
- Moshe realized that the people were afraid to fight against nations which seemed much stronger and more numerous than they. To allay their fears, Moshe told them to do what?
To remember what G-d did to Pharaoh and unto all Egypt and that He would do the same to the nations.
- Even after B'nai Yisrael would defeat all the enemy, there would still be some hiding out and ready to defeat them. What did Moshe tell the people in regard to this?
That Hashem would send hornets that would chase the stragglers out into the open.
- B'nai Yisrael were to be most careful not to adopt the gods of the nations. How were they to dispose of the idols which they would find?
Burn them with fire being careful not to remove the gold and silver
- Moshe told the people that they had been afflicted with hunger in the desert, but that G-d had provided manna to sustain them. What lesson was learned by this miracle?
That man does not live by bread alone, but by everything that comes from Hashem does man live.
- What does the phrase, that man does not live by bread alone, mean in a deeper sense?
A pure soul and clean spirit are more important than one's physical needs; creating wealth is not the most important thing.
- Moshe anticipated a danger for B'nai Yisrael when they became wealthy and satisfied with their position in the land. What did he say could happen?
That the people would forget all that G-d had done for them, and say in their heart, my power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.
- For what reasons were B'nai Yisrael being allowed to possess the land?
Because of G-d's promise to the Avraham, Yitzhak, and Yaakov, and because of the wickedness of the people already living there. What about the righteousness of B'nai Yisrael? No way; they had defied Hashem time after time.
- When Hashem saw, time after time, how wicked and stiff-necked B'nai Yisrael was, He offered a new deal to Moshe. What was it?
That He would blot out B'nai Yisrael and make a new, bigger, and more holy nation from Moshe.
- Moshe fasted 40 days and nights to stay this plan of Hashem. What was his argument that convinced Hashem not to destroy the people?
Hashem had redeemed them from Egypt and taken them into the desert. Wouldn't the Egyptians say that Hashem had not been powerful enough to take them into the land, and that He hated them so much, He took them into the wilderness to destroy them.
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