How did Hashem's response answer Moshe's request to cross the Yarden?
Rashi: If Moshe's Tefilah to enter Eretz Yisrael and to see the land could not be answered in full, part of it was answered, and he was granted permission to see the entire land. 1
Sifsei Chachamim: And not just Yerushalayim and the Beis-Hamikdash, which is what he asked to see. See also Oznayim la'Torah.
Why did Hashem add the (otherwise superfluous) word "u'Re'ei be'Einecha"?
Or ha'Chayim #1: Hashem was telling Moshe that he would - miraculously - see with his eyes everything that he had asked to see with his whole body.
Or ha'Chayiam #2: Hashem was telling Moshe that he would see the entire land with his eyes and would require a telescope.
Seeing as Moshe was standing east of the Yarden, why did he need to look eastwards?
R. Bachye: ?Because he was elevated 1 to see all four directions of the land with his naked eyes and to comprehend the four-letter Name of Hashem which is the first upper-Merkavah of the four directions of the world?.
Or ha'Chayim #1: Hashem was telling Moshe that he would - miraculously - see with his eyes everything that he had asked to see with his whole body.
Or ha'Chayiam #2: Hashem was telling Moshe that he would see the entire land with his eyes and would not require a telescope.
R. Bachye: As hinted in the words ?Alei Rosh ha?Pisgah?.
?Yamah ve?Tzafonah, ve?Teimanah u?Mizrachah?. We find the directions listed in different orders. Why here, did Hashem begin with the west?
R. Bachye: Because, since ?the Shechinah is in the west? (Bava Basra 28a), Moshe was instructed to begin from the direction where the Shechinah was, 1 because when he looked at Eretz Yisrael, he praised Hakadosh-Baruch-Hu
And it is for the same reason, in connection with Ya?akov too, Hashem began from the west - va?Keidmah, ve?Tzafonah va?Negbah?. west (Bereishis 28:14). See R. Bachye, who elaborates.
?Yamah ve?Tzafonah, ve?Teimanah u?Mizrachah?. Why did Hashem use the word ?Teimanah? for south and not ?Negbah?, like he did in Bereishis 28:14, in connection with Ya?akov?
If Moshe's good deeds did not enable him even to see Eretz Yisrael, how did Tefilah succeed in doing so?
B'rachos, 32b: We see from here that Tefilah is greater than good deeds. 1
See Torah Temimah, note 10.
What are the implications of ?ki Lo Sa?avor es ha?Yarden ha?Zeh??
Ya?akov?s body and bones were buried in Eretz Yisrael, and so were Yosef?s bones. Why were neither the bones nor the body of Moshe - who was greater than both of them - buried in Eretz Yisrael?
R Bachye #1: In honor of Yisrael (the Dor ha?Midbar) who died in the desert and whose bones did not enter Eretz Yisrael.
R. Bachye #2: In honor of all those who died in Galus in Chutz la?Aretz - to reassure them that they will merit Techi?as ha?Meisim on the merit of Moshe and that they will arise together with him.
Since Hashem did not want to bring Moshe to the land, why did He show it to him, seeing as it would only cause him pain?
Refer to Bamidbar, 27:13:152:1-4 and to Devarim, 3:25:2:3.
