Vayeilech: Hekal as a Community Paradigm

It is taught in a baraita that Rabbi Eliezer the Great says: ... the Torah issue[d] warnings in thirty-six places, and some say in forty-six places, with regard to causing any distress to a stranger...

[A collection of earlier Talmudic commentaries compiled in the 16th century by Rabbi Betzalel Ashkenazi]

And some say in 46 places: If you would say, "Where do we find these 46 places? Do we not find above only 3 negative commandments?" One could say that Rabbi Eliezer counted all the places where "stranger" is mentioned, such as "you were stragers" and "you shall love the stranger" etc. Thus taught the RaP (R. Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil). But the RAVaD (R. Abraham ben David) wrote: "It seems to me that every place Scripture mentions 'a stranger' or 'as a stranger' or 'as a citizen' etc. - he counts as a mention. But it appears to me that the count is only 36 and not 46, and the disagreement between these counts is due to the fact that one considers all the places where a stranger is mentioned, while the other excludes these same places in Torah where 'poor,' 'orphan,' and 'widow' are [also] mentioned."

(10) And Moses instructed them as follows: Every seventh year, the year set for remission, at the Feast of Booths, (11) when all Israel comes to appear before your God יהוה in the place that [God] will choose, you shall read this Teaching aloud in the presence of all Israel. (12) Gather the people—men, women, children, and the strangers in your communities—that they may hear and so learn to revere your God יהוה and to observe faithfully every word of this Teaching. (13) Their children, too, who have not had the experience, shall hear and learn to revere your God יהוה as long as they live in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.