Small Alef in VaYikra - Humility of Moses.
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1:12I'm not going to do anything right now. Let me get married. Let me make a little bit of money. Let me do a few things. Fix a few things. Then I'll get to Hashem. I'll be a tzaddik. No problem. Number one, you don't know how long you're going to live. You can't say you're going to live to seventy years old. You can't say you're going to live to ninety years old or one hundred years old. You can't even say you're going to live until tomorrow. We don't know. The clock is up there; it's not here. So that, number one, it's not a good plan. Number two, Hashem specifically says, if you say that, I'll never let you get to that time. Specifically tells you. You say that you're going to sin now and make up for it later, and He will make sure you won't make it to that time. There's a special punishment for you. Why? Because who do you think you are? You're going to make Hashem wait? Someone that came from nothing, from a sperm cell that's eventually going to turn into a body, a corpse that's going to be eaten by worms and maggots, is going to tell the Creator of the world to wait? Think about the logic of this. It doesn't make any sense. Oh, no, no. Hashem, I don't have time for You right now, but let me make a little bit of money because it's in my ability to make money. It's not You. I make the money. I get the wife. I get the husband. I do everything. You don't do anything.
2:37wait for me a few minutes, a few years, a few decades, I'll get to you in a little while. If you think about this for two minutes, for one second you think about this, it doesn't make any sense. If you really believe in Hashem, it doesn't make any sense. So Hashem tells us here, I want to talk to Moshe, but I don't want to talk to Bilaam, so that's why with Bilaam, I took away the letter. I told him, don't add the letter. But with Moshe, I added the letter. But Moshe... The Gadol HaDor, the biggest of the big, the smartest, the closest to Hashem, rich, powerful—everything you can possibly imagine—is described constantly as the most humble. And Hashem loved him in a way that we only wish we could be loved. Moshe was at a level we could only wish we could be a shoe, forget him, just a shoe. If we were a shoe, we're already in Gan Eden.
3:38Moshe was humble, even though he was amazing. He was very humble. And he felt it was very inappropriate for him to receive this special privilege that Hashem was giving him by granting him this extra letter. Who am I, Bechlal? he says. I'm just Moshe. I'm just a human being. I'm nothing. So he says, okay. I don't really want to write this extra aleph. Why? He's a prophet also, even though he's a rasha. He's a prophet also. No. Write the letter. So Moshe says, okay, I'll write the letter, but I'm going to write it small. Showing his humility, showing his modesty, showing that even the biggest of the big knows how small he is in front of his Creator. Teaching us one of the most important lessons: that we can learn in order for us to have a connection with Hashem. In Hebrew, it's called anavah. In English, it's called humility. Humility. that we can learn in order for us to have a connection with Hashem. In Hebrew, it's called anavah. In English, it's called humility. Humility.
