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Neil Harris's avatar

This was masterfully put together (even if you hadn’t brought in Simon & Garfunkel, which only made it better).

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Comment from Rabbi Micha Berger:

Thanks for this.

The anavah that Rashi and the gemara refer to for explaining the small alef

is intimately linked to the ability to hear the qol demamah daqah. So your

suggestion may not be as boldly breaking from them as all that...

R YB Soloveitchik notes this by the seneh. The Moshe who sees the seneh

bo'eir ba'eish -- the bush burning in a fire -- as though the fire is bigger

than the bush, has a nevu'ah of an angel.

It is only when Moshe realizes that the eish is besokh haseneh, that Hashem

practices Tzimtzum, that he also emulates the "tzimtzum", the anavah

necessary to hear Hashem Himself.

Or to put it more simply: To hear G-d, one has to take a break from

listening to himself!

G'Shabbos!

-micha

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