[Avodah] Moshe Rabeinu's stuttering

[Zvi Lampel]

Sun, 14 Jan 2007 from: "Danny Schoemann" <doniels at gmail.com> 


> My 8 year old wanted to know why Moshe Rabeinu's stuttering wasn't 
healed at the burning bush. 

> To this I answered that since Moshe Rabeinu didn't daven for it, it 
didn't happen. (Great opportunity for a little lesson in the power of 
davening.) 

> She then claimed that Moshe Rabeinu's stuttering was healed at Matan 
Torah, since all ailments were then cured. Do we have a reliable 
record to prove/disprove that Moshe Rabeinu was included/excluded from 
that? <

Rav SR Hirsch’s comments on Sh’mos 4:11 are instructive: "Indeed a stammerer is the most fitting for this mission. Every word of the stuttering stammerer is itself an os. If a man who ordinarily stammers speaks easily and flowingly in G-d’s mission, every word brings its own credentials with it." Complementing this are Rav Hirsh’s remarks (and similar ones by others) on (3:12): "Your insufficiency is the guarantee that you /are/ sent by G-d. Without it, the salvation in Egypt would fall into the category of world-historical events which glorify human greatness...."

Zvi Lampel
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