## Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Tetzaveh

###### Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Tetzaveh 2:1
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[ואתה תצוה וגו']. זש"ה ראשך עליך ככרמל (שה"ש ז ו), הדלים והרשים שבכם הן חביבין לפני כדניאל, [מלך אסור ברהטים] (שם), אמר להן הקב"ה כביכול אסור אני ביניכם, בזכות מה, בזכות הריצות שרץ אברהם לפני, שנאמרוימהר אברהם האהלה, ואל הבקר רץ אברהם (בראשית יח ו ז), הוי מלך אסור ברהטים, ר' לוי אמר בזכות יעקב שכתיב בו ברהטים בשקתות המים (שם ל לח).

**Midrash Tanhuma, S. Buber Recension; trans. by John T. Townsend, 1989.:**
[(Exod. 27:20:) AND YOU SHALL COMMAND….] This text is related (to Cant. 7:6 [5]): YOUR HEAD UPON YOU IS LIKE CARMEL, AND THE LOCKS (*dallah*) OF YOUR HEAD (*rosh*) ARE LIKE PURPLE. The poor (*dallim*) and the needy (*rashim*) who are among you are as dear to me as Daniel.⁸., Exod. 8:6; Lev. R. 31:4; Cant. R. 7:6:1, all of which cite Dan. 5:29: AND THEY CLOTHED DANIEL IN PURPLE. [(Ibid., cont.:) A KING IS CAPTIVATED BY THE TRESSES (*rehatim*).] The Holy One, as it were, said to them: I am bound by an oath⁹, Cant., 992. to be among you. By virtue of what? By virtue of the races that Abraham ran for me, as stated (in Gen. 18:6–7): ABRAHAM HASTENED TO THE TENT … THEN ABRAHAM RAN UNTO THE HERD.¹⁰. (Buber), Gen. 4:5, and the note there. Ergo (in Cant. 7:6 [5]): A KING IS CAPTIVATED BY THE TRESSES (*rehatim*).¹¹ (i.e., *RHT*) can mean “run.” R. Levi said: By virtue of Jacob, of whom it is written (in Gen. 30:38): AND HE SET UP THE RODS WHICH HE HAD PEELED IN THE TROUGHS (rehatim), IN THE WATER RECEPTACLES.

footnotes:
⁸ See Tanh
⁹ The added words appear in all the parallel versions except Yalqut Shim’oni
¹⁰ On the three races of Abraham, see above, Tanh
¹¹ The root of rehatim


###### Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Tetzaveh 2:2
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ד"א מלך אסור ברהטים, א"ל הקב"ה למשה, משה מלך עשיתיך, מה המלך גוזר והן עושין, אף אתה גזור עליהן והן עושין, ואתה תצוה וגו'.

**Midrash Tanhuma, S. Buber Recension; trans. by John T. Townsend, 1989.:**
Another interpretation (of Cant. 7:6 [5]): A KING IS CAPTIVATED BY THE TRESSES (*rehatim*). The Holy One said to Moses: Moses, I have made you a king. Just as the king issues decrees, and they act; so you issue decrees¹², but this reading is probably a misreading of *GWZR* due to metathesis. The reading, *gwzr*, which is the one translated here, is found in the parallel text of *Tanh*., Exod. 8:6. over them, and they shall act. (Exod. 27:20:) AND YOU SHALL COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL….

footnotes:
¹² The Buber text reads GZWR