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Ramban on Deuteronomy 33:4/רמב"ן על דברים ל״ג:ד׳
אתּוֹרָה צִוָּה לָנוּ מֹשֶׁה, הַטַּעַם שֶׁיִּשָּׂא תָּמִיד וְיֹאמַר תּוֹרָה צִוָּה לָנוּ מֹשֶׁה וְהִיא תִּהְיֶה מוֹרָשָׁה לִקְהִלַּת יַעֲקֹב, כִּי לְדוֹרוֹת עוֹלָם כָּל בְּנֵי יַעֲקֹב יִירָשׁוּהָ וְיִשְׁמְרוּ אוֹתָהּ, כִּי לֹא תִשָּׁכַח מִפִּי זַרְעוֹ. וְדָרְשׁוּ רַבּוֹתֵינוּ (מדרש תהלים א), שֶׁלֹּא אָמַר מוֹרָשָׁה בֵּית יַעֲקֹב אוֹ זֶרַע יַעֲקֹב וְאָמַר קְהִלַּת יַעֲקֹב, לְרַמֵּז שֶׁיִּקָּהֲלוּ רַבִּים עֲלֵיהֶם וְתִהְיֶה הַתּוֹרָה לְעוֹלָם מוֹרָשָׁה לְיַעֲקֹב וּלְכָל הַנִּקְהָלִים עָלָיו, הֵם הַגֵּרִים הַנִּלְוִים עַל ה' לְשָׁרְתוֹ וְנִסְפְּחוּ עַל בֵּית יַעֲקֹב, וְנִקְרְאוּ כֻּלָּם קְהִלָּתוֹ:
1MOSES COMMANDED US A LAW. The meaning thereof is that Israel will always “take” [receive His words] and say “Moses commanded us a Law and this will be an inheritance of the congregation of Jacob, for all the children of Jacob shall possess it forever and observe it, for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed.”59 And our Rabbis interpreted60 8. that he did not say “an inheritance of the house of Jacob” or “the seed of Jacob” — he stated of the congregation of Jacob in order to suggest that many [strangers] would join them and the Torah will always be an inheritance of Jacob and of all who congregate to him, these being the strangers that join themselves to the Eternal, to minister unto Him,61 and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob,62, 14:1. and they will all be called “His congregation.”