Resurrection of the dead

Behold, I have set the land before you...to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it to them (Deut. 1:8)

This verse does not say that the land will be given "to you," but "to them" - Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - an allusion to the resurrection of the dead.


(Sanhedrin)
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How can I by myself alone bear your trouble, and your burden, and your strife? (Deut. 1:12)

Rashi comments: "And your burden" - this teaches that the Children of Israel were skeptics and heretics. Rabbi Nachman of Breslov used to say: The heaviest burden a man can endure is that of skepticism. The heart of the true believer is much lighter than that of the heretic, who is always weighed down by the yoke of his doubts.
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You shall not show favor (lit. "recognize") in judgment (Deut. 1:17)

This admonition cautions a judge to be fair and impartial, even if he is personally acquainted with one of the parties brought before him for judgment; he must not allow himself to be swayed by his prior association. Rather, both sides in the dispute must be treated as if he had never seen them before.


(Ibn Ezra)
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For unto Esau have I given Mount Seir as a possession (Deut. 2:5)

Although the Children of Israel fulfilled an express command of G-d when they took over the land Canaan, G-d warned them that their desire to conquer territory should not extend beyond those lands He had explicitly promised to them.


(Rabbi Shimshon Refael Hirsch)
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May the L-rd G-d of your fathers make you a thousand times as many as you are (Deut. 1:11)

When will this blessing be fulfilled? In the World to Come, when, as the Prophet Isaiah states, "The least one shall become a thousand, and the smallest a great nation." The Jewish people, the "least" and "smallest," will multiply one thousand times in number, in fulfillment of Moses' blessing.

(Binyan Ariel)