EXTRA · Side-ring · Parashas Shoftim · Passuk 18:16
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According to all that you asked of the Eternal your God at Chorev on the day of the assembly, saying: Let me not continue to hear the voice of the Eternal my God, and this great fire let me not see any more, so that I not die.
Chazal / classical source (beyond TT-numbered main-ring units): Sifrei Devarim 175 / Rashi.
Lemma: כְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר שָׁאַלְתָּ.
Sefaria — Sifrei Devarim 175 / Rashi
English: ‘According to all that you asked of the Eternal your God at Chorev’ – this is the request of Yisrael.
Derash linking the prophet to the request at Chorev (Sifrei) — the institution of prophecy answers the fear expressed at the assembly.
The raising of a prophet like Moshe is the fulfillment of what the people themselves asked for at Chorev: a mediated word instead of the direct voice and fire.