What did Hashem have in mind, when He issued the command to put away an earthenware flask of Manna for their generations?
Rashi and Targum Yonasan: When Yirmeyah ha'Navi rebuked the people for not studying Torah, and they replied that they needed the time to indulge in Parnasah, he took out the bottle of Manna, pointed at it, and declared that in the desert that is what sustained them. 1 This was a clear proof that Hashem has many ways of sustaining those who fear Him, and that if they would do His will by studying Torah, He would send His Sheluchim to sustain them.
Based on Yirmeyah 2:31 .
What is the significance of the vfact that the Torah inserts the word "le'Mishmeres" three times in Pesukim 32-34?
R. Bachye: "le'Mishmeres ? Lema'an Yir'u es ha'Lechem" refers to the Dor ha'Midbar, "le'Mishmeres le'Doroseichem" to Eretz Yisrael (in the time of Yirmiyah) 1 and "Lifnei Hashem le'Mishmeres, to Olam ha'Ba ? since together with the Aron, the Shemen ha'Mishchah, Aharon's staff and the box containing the gift which the P'lishtim sent to Yisrael, the bottle containing the Manna was hidden by Yoshiyahu ha'Melech underneath the tunnels of the Heichal, 2 when he discovered that Yisrael would go into exile. 3
