[Avodah] Moshe Rabenu got rich from the shivrei luchos

[David Riceman]

The message is that it applies to spiritual goods as well as physical goods.  MR (RMR?) got luchos rishonos — Torah — only for the benefit of klal yisroel.  If they didn’t deserve he should have been willing to continue without it.  As indeed he was.

DR

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> On Apr 20, 2021, at 5:44 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 12:47:35PM -0400, David Riceman via Avodah wrote:
>> Once you construe shivrei luchos as a metaphor shouldn't you also construe
>> wealth as a metaphor (Avos 4:1)?
> 
> But then what's the message? That the right way to prepare to recieve
> Torah is to become happy with your lot? A lot shallower / obvious of a
> message, no?
> 
> Tir'u baTov!
> -Micha