Zos Habracha – Burial of Moshe Rabbenu

Reb E – the minim weren’t agnostic. They believed in a creator, but made other serious errors, and were hostile to the Torah jews. They caused such damage that chazal made a bracha for them in birchas haminim.

The entire gemara is “nisht tzu farshtain” – Hashem created tumah; he isn’t affected by it, nor is he affected by anything else, because He is kulo pashut, as the rambam says.

Here is a question…

The possuk says that Noone knew קבורתו, which means his burial, not קברו, which means his kever. So what does it mean that Noone understood his burial, ie why or how he was buried, as opposed to where he was buried (which is not the word used)

The Ben Gorni explains that Eliezer Eved Avrohom went into Gan Eden alive. How is that possible if Avrohom Yitzchok and Yaakov didn’t? He explained that any tzaddik could go into Gan Eden alive since they have sufficient zechusim. The Avos, however, chose to leave over for us zechus Avos so they didn’t have enough to go in alive. Eliezer didn’t care about his eineklach so he kept his zechusim all to himself.

The question then becomes…. what about Moshe? He clearly had enough zechusim to get in alive even after leaving over for us zechus Avos. And that is why the Torah says Kevuraso – it’s a wonderment how he was even buried.