[Avodah] who is to blame??; re:moshe rabeinu and Eretz Yisrael????

[Micha Berger]

The medrash about the small aleph and comparing it to Bil'am's "vayiqar"
(Bamidbar 23:4) is Vayiqra Rabba 1:13.

The Ohr haChaim Shemos 34:29 is where I probably saw the bit about the
extra ink and the qarnei hod. I have a feeling my problem was that the
OhC is near Rashi on my Miqraos Gedolos page.

But, he doesn't connect the extra ink to that saved in reducing the size
of the alef. Rather, it's the missing yud before the vav in "anav mikol
adam" (Bamidbar 12:3). The OhC's point is about anavah causing the hod,
which would be true for vayiqar/ra as well.

However, it is starting to look like a phantom maamar Chazal, even if I
did find RMEliyahu repeating it...

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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