Before giving us the Ten Commandments, God tells us: You yourselves saw what I did to Egypt, and..I brought you to Me. This closeness will not automatically continue, explains R. Charlap. And so the verses continue And now, if you will really seek to understand My voice and keep My covenant, you will become for

If you go by My statutes and keep My commands and do them, I shall give your rains in their season...Why "your rains in their season" and not just "rain in their season"? The verse tells us: man and beast You rescue, LORD (Psalms 36:7). Ideally, comments the Midrash, God rescues animals to support their