Derasha 4 on Behaalosecha 11:16

Parashas Behaalosecha · Aliyah 5 · Passuk 16

The Complete Passuk

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהֹוָ֜ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֗ה אֶסְפָה־לִּ֞י שִׁבְעִ֣ים אִישׁ֮ מִזִּקְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יָדַ֔עְתָּ כִּי־הֵ֛ם זִקְנֵ֥י הָעָ֖ם וְשֹׁטְרָ֑יו וְלָקַחְתָּ֤ אֹתָם֙ אֶל־אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֔ד וְהִֽתְיַצְּב֥וּ שָׁ֖ם עִמָּֽךְ׃

Chabad.org — English translation + Rashi

Source Citation

Torah Temimah on this passuk (citation pointer only). Core text below is the Chazal derasha as recorded by TT — not TT’s explanatory voice. The seventy stand “with you” — Moshe remains among them, not above as a separate class alone.

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text
וְהִֽתְיַצְּב֥וּ שָׁ֖ם עִמָּֽךְ׃

English: “And they shall stand there with you.”

Type of Learning

Shared station — the elders are gathered into Moshe’s space at the Ohel.

What Is Learned

Leadership is not isolation; the verse places the seventy beside Moshe.