[Avodah] PEARLS OF SHMOS

[Cantor Wolberg]

The Chasam Sofer asks why should all rabbis have the title of rabbi  
precede their name, whereas with Moshe, his name preceded his title:  
Moshe Rabbeinu. He answers that even before matan Torah, Moshe was the  
greatest of the rabbis, whereas all the other rabbis are great only  
because of the merit of the Torah that Moshe Rabbeinu taught, so  
that's why he was Moshe Rabbeinu and not Rabbeinu Moshe.  Very  
interestingly, the gematria of Moshe Rabbeinu is 613.

The first verse of Shmos: V'aile Shmos b'nai Yisroel haba'im  
mitzraima..." "And these are the names of the Children of Israel who  
were coming (lit., are coming) to Egypt..."
The gematria of Mitzraima is 385 and the gematria of Shechina, the  
Divinity of God, is 385, which alludes to the fact that the Divinity  
of God went into exile with them.

May we be liberated from our private Mitzrayim...

Shabbat Shalom.
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