[Avodah] How the Torah portrays our great men

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:05:28PM +0200, Eli Turkel wrote:
: Interestingly [R Dr] Shnayer Leiman has a fascinating article in Tradition
: (many years ago)
: in which he discusses a Tifereth Yisrael that brings a "story" that
: Moshe Rabbenu : found a magic mirror that showed one's inner personality. This showed that Moshe
: was intrinsically evil and reached his heights by overcoming his
: natutal tendencies.

I recall learning a similar maamar chazal, in which it was a phrenologist
(someone who assesses the character of a person from their head shape
and bumps) who said that MRAH was born to be a highway robber.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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