[Avodah] Parshas Korach: Rav Shimon Schwab - Picking Up The Tab For Moshe's Donkey

[Prof. Levine]

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Parshas Korach: Rav Shimon Schwab - Picking Up The Tab For Moshe's Donkey

Moshe complains about the accusations hurled against him and says, 
"Lo Chamor Echad Meihem Nasasi", I didn't even take a single donkey 
from them (Korach 16:15). Rashi says this refers to when he came down 
to Mitzrayim to redeem them on a donkey, and he paid for it from his 
own money. Rav Shimon Schwab asks, why would Moshe think that he 
should have taken the money from Bnei Yisroel.

Rav Schwab answers that the gemara in Sanhedrin (98a) says that when 
the geula comes, if we are zocheh Moshiach will arrive on clouds, if 
not then Moshiach will come as a pauper on a donkey. Why? The whole 
world needs to know that Hashem is bringing the geula and Moshiach 
has no power by himself. If Bnei Yisroel are Maaminim and Ovdei 
Hashem then Moshiach can come in grand fashion and we will all place 
thanks in Hashem and not Moshiach. But if we do not recognize 
Hashem's hand, then Hashem will need to send a Moshiach who is 
powerless and destitute to show that it is not his charisma, brains, 
or money that will release us from the galus.

Moshe was the Goel in Mitzrayim. Bnei Yisroel was not Zocheh and 
Moshe came riding into town on a donkey lacking any pomp or grandeur. 
He came with the stick in his hand and the shirt on his back. To show 
his poverty he should have asked Bnei Yisroel to pay for his donkey. 
Even then he did not, since he did not want to take anything from any 
member of Klal Yisroel.

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