What is the significance of "Elohei Masechah Lo Sa'aseh lach" here?
Hadar Zekenim and Da'as Zekenim: Following the sin of the Eigel, Hashem is warning them not to indulge in such stupidity again.
Erech Apayim (1, based on the Zohar Tetzaveh, 182:2): It is a warning against making an idoatry through anger, since it causes the Holy Neshamah to depart..
Why does the Torah need to insert the current Pasuk? Why would we have thought that they are permitted?
R. Bachye, Hadar Zekenim and Da'as Zekenim: Following the sin of the Eigel, Hashem is warning them not to indulge in such stupidity to remember again (to remember Midas Rachamim [as symbolized by Matzah] ? and not to dabble in Midas ha?Din [as symbolized by Chametz] ? R. Bachye). 1 2
Erech Apayim (1, based on the Zohar in Tetzaveh ): It is a warning against making an idoatry through anger, since it causes the Holy Neshamah to depart..
