[Avodah] burning bush

[Arie Folger]

> If someone were near Moshe when he came to the burning burn:
> 1. Would he also have seen it was burning but not consumed 2. Would he
> have heard G-d talking to Moshe Rabbenu rl would have thought Moshe is
> talking to a bush

Some data points: From Daniel perek 10 (JPS 1917 translation):

4 And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by
the side of the great river, which is Tigris, 5 I lifted up mine eyes,
and looked, and behold a man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded
with fine gold of Uphaz; 6 his body also was like the beryl, and his
face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as torches of fire,
and his arms and his feet like in colour to burnished brass, and the
voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. 7 And I Daniel alone
saw the vision; for the men that were with me saw not the vision;
howbeit a great trembling fell upon them, and they fled to hide
themselves.

So those present saw nothing. On the other hand, from Divrei haYamim
aleph perek 21 (JPS 1917 translation):

15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it; and as he was
about to destroy, the LORD beheld, and He repented Him of the evil,
and said to the destroying angel: 'It is enough; now stay thy hand.'
And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan
the Jebusite. 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of
the LORD standing between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn
sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the
elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 17 And David said
unto God: 'Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even
I it is that have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what
have they done? let Thy hand, I pray Thee, O LORD my God, be against
me, and against my father's house; but not against Thy people, that
they should be plagued.'
18 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that
David should go up, and rear an altar unto the LORD in the
threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19 And David went up at the
saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the LORD. 20 And Ornan
turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons that were with him
hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.


Kol tuv,
-- 
Arie Folger,
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