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<P align=left>Sun, 14 Jan 2007 from: "Danny Schoemann" <doniels@gmail.com> </P>
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<P align=left><BR>> My 8 year old wanted to know why Moshe Rabeinu's stuttering wasn't </P>
<P align=left>healed at the burning bush. </P>
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<P align=left>> To this I answered that since Moshe Rabeinu didn't daven for it, it </P>
<P align=left>didn't happen. (Great opportunity for a little lesson in the power of </P>
<P align=left>davening.) </P>
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<P align=left>> She then claimed that Moshe Rabeinu's stuttering was healed at Matan </P>
<P align=left>Torah, since all ailments were then cured. Do we have a reliable </P>
<P align=left>record to prove/disprove that Moshe Rabeinu was included/excluded from </P>
<P align=left>that? <</P>
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<P align=left>Rav SR Hirsch’s comments on Sh’mos 4:11 are instructive: "Indeed a stammerer is the most fitting for this mission. Every word of the stuttering stammerer is itself an os. If a man who ordinarily stammers speaks easily and flowingly in G-d’s mission, every word brings its own credentials with it." Complementing this are Rav Hirsh’s remarks (and similar ones by others) on (3:12): "Your insufficiency is the guarantee that you /are/ sent by G-d. Without it, the salvation in Egypt would fall into the category of world-historical events which glorify human greatness...."</P>
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<P align=left>Zvi Lampel</P><br></body></html>