English of Core Text: “Your brother Yisrael” — Why mention brotherhood here? He said to him: We are brothers, sons of Avraham, to whom it was said “your seed shall be a stranger…” — and both of us were obligated to fulfill that debt.
On the daf / in context: Tanchuma explains that Moshe invoked brotherhood because both Yaakov and Esav’s lines shared the decree of gerut; Edom, having never paid that debt in Egypt, had no claim to contest Israel’s passage or inheritance. The long SKIP also frames the approach to Hor haHar and the loss of Aharon near the border of the wicked.
Type of Learning: Narrative derasha / shared ancestral obligationWhat Is Learned: Brotherhood is invoked because both nations shared the decree of sojourning; Edom’s refusal and the border of Edom are midrashically linked to the subsequent loss of the tzaddik Aharon.