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The 37 intermittent years seem to have passed without any event worthy of mention. Day after day passed, adding up to weeks, months, and years. All we get in between the aftermath of Parashat Korach and the death of Miriam are the mitzvot of parah adumah and tumat met, which, according to the Midrash, were actually given on the day of the dedication of the Mishkan.
But it is during these years that Moshe Rabbenu and the Jewish people became intimately connected with one another. Up to this point the Israelites had lived from crisis to crisis. Now they developed the routine of daily manna collection and the study of God’s Torah from Moshe and the elders. They were able to focus on the details of the mitzvot and contemplate their significance and proper fulfillment. While the desert was hardly a preparation for the independent life they would be leading in Israel, this experience imbued them with a new perspective of what life is all about, both personally and nationally.
These years are well represented by the parah adumah, which teaches that man is ultimately redeemed from the defilement of death, and kal vachomer from the setbacks of life. Daily efforts to do what is right, to fulfill God’s mitzvot, add up to a human existence worthy of man who was created in His image.
Yes, there is a great deal of confusion in life. Yet, all in all we slowly move in the direction of being worthy of entering God’s promised land as God’s chosen people.
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