(Devarim 32:14) "Cream from the herd and milk from he flock": as in the days of Solomon, viz. (I Kings 5:3) "ten fattened oxen, twenty oxen from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, etc." "with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan and he-goats": as in the days of the ten tribes, viz. (Amos 6:4) "eating the fattened sheep of the flock and calves from inside the stall." "with wheat (as fat as) the fat of kidneys": as in the days of Solomon, viz. (I Kings 5:2) "And Solomon's provision for one day was, etc." "and the blood of the grape did you drink (as choice) wine": as in the days of the ten tribes, viz. (Amos 6:6) "who drink wine out of bowls."
Variantly: "He made him ride on the high places of the earth": This refers to the Temple, which is higher than the rest of the world, viz. (Devarim 17:8) "then you shall arise and go up to the place" (the Temple), and (Isaiah 2:3) "And many peoples will go and say: 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the L-rd, to the Temple of the G-d of Jacob." "and he ate the shoots of the field": the baskets of bikkurim (the first-fruits). "and He gave him to seek honey from the rock": the oil libations. "Cream from the herd and milk from the flock with fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan and he-goats": the sin-offering, the burnt-offering, peace-offerings, the guilt-offering, the thank-offering, and lower order offerings. "with wheat (as fat as) the fat of kidneys": the meal-offerings. "and the blood of the grape did you drink (as choice) wine": the wine libations.
Variantly: "He made him ride on the high places of the earth": Torah, viz. (Proverbs 5:22) "The L-rd acquired me (Torah) the beginning of His way." "and he ate the shoots of the field": Scripture. "and He gave him to seek honey from the rock": Mishnah. "and oil from the flint of the rock": Talmud. "cream from the herd and milk from the flock with fat of rams and rams of the breed of Bashan and he-goats": a fortiori arguments, gezeiroth shavoth (identities), intercalations, and gematrioth (numerical equivalents). "with wheat (as fat as) the wheat of kidneys": halachoth, the essence of Torah. "and blood of the grape did you drink (as choice) wine": aggadoth, which "pull" a man's heart, like wine.
Variantly: "He made him ride on the high places of the earth": this world. "and he ate the shoots of the field": the four exiles. "and He gave him to suck honey from the rock": as it is written (Psalms 20:14) "The boar of the forest ravages it" (Israel). "and oil from the flint of the rock": The reference is to the "oppressors," who have seized upon Eretz Yisrael and from whom it is as difficult to extract a perutah (small coin) as from a rock, viz. (Ibid.) "and the crawler of the field feeds on it." In the future, Israel will inherit their possessions, which will be as sweet to it as honey and oil.
Variantly: "cream of the herd": These are their (the nations') nobles and generals. "with fat of lambs": their officers. "and rams": their atheists. "of the breed of Bashan": their centurions, that "attack" between their teeth. "and he-goats": their assessors. "with wheat (as fat as) the fat of kidneys": their matrons. "and He gave him to suck honey from the rock, and oil from the flint of the rock.": Israel, who in the future will inherit their possessions, which will be as sweet to it as oil and honey.
Variantly: "with wheat (as fat as) the fat of kidneys": Each wheat (stalk in Eretz Yisrael is destined to produce (the quantity of) two kidneys of a large ox, fourteen litras by the litra of Sepphoris. And do not wonder at that. Look at the turnip heads. A fox once denned in the head of a turnip, which when it (the turnip) was weighed, was found to be sixty litra by the litra of Sepphoris. And it once happened in Shichin (near Sepphoris) with a mustard stalk of three shoots, that (the bast of) one shoot, when it was stripped, sufficed to roof a potter's hut, and which, when pounded, was found to contain nine measures of mustard. R. Shimon b. Chalafta said: There was a cabbage stalk in our field, which I would ascend and descend as I would a ladder.
Variantly: "and the blood of the grape will you drink as wine": You will not weary yourself with treading and harvesting, but you will bring it in a wagon and stand it in a corner and drink from it as one would drink from a nipple.