Rashi on Exodus - The Patriarchs and Those Who are Lost and Not Found

"Moses returned to Hashem and said, 'My Lord, why have You harmed this people, why have You sent me? From the time I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name he harmed this people, but You did not rescue Your people."

-- Exodus 5:22


"The Holy One, Blessed is He, said to Moses in response: Woe! For those who are lost and are not found! I have good cause to bemoan the death of the Patriarchs. Many times I revealed Myself to them as El Shaddai, yet they did not say to Me, 'What is Your Name?' But you said, 'If they will say to me, What is His Name, what shall I say to them?'"

-- Rashi, Commentary on Exodus


LOST : Because they did not enter the promised land.

NOT FOUND : They did not find what Moses found when he asked for the Name to be revealed to him.

Rashi on the Shema - To Love Hashem your God

"And it will be that if listening, you will listen to My commandments that I command you today, to love Hashem your God..." -- Deuteronomy 11:13

"TO LOVE HASHEM : That you should not say, 'Behold I shall learn so that I will be rich', or 'so that I will be called Rabbi', or 'so that I will receive reward for having studied'. Rather, all that you do, do out of love and the honor will come in the end." -- Rashi


honor = כבוד
כבוד = 32

Rashi on a Reference to Metatron in Exodus 23:21 - "My Name is Within Him"

"Behold! I send an angel before you to protect you on the way, and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.  Beware of him ─ hearken to his voice, do not disobey him, for he will not forgive your transgression ─ for My Name is within him."

-- Exodus 23:20-21

"Our Rabbis have said that this is the angel Metatron, whose name is like the Name of his Master, in that the numerical value of Metatron (314) equals that of Shaddai."

-- Rashi, Commentary on Exodus