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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>From: Cantor Wolberg <A
href="mailto:cantorwolberg@cox.net">cantorwolberg@cox.net</A></FONT></DIV>
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size=2><BR>>>Regarding the pasuk where Moshe tells HaShem "And now if You
would <BR>forgive their sin -- but if not, erase my name from Your book
that You <BR>have written," and my comment: It seems strange to me that
for someone <BR>who was considered to be the most humble Biblical
character of all <BR>time, had the chutzpah to say to the Almighty: "If
you don't forgive <BR>them, then count me out." It sounds like a
threat.<BR><BR>Two postings were quite defensive about my use of the word
"chutzpah." <BR>It's funny how the same people had no problem in
describing the <BR>chutzpah of Miriam toward her parents (with chazal
justification, I <BR>know). The objections raised to the term chutzpah is
lovely d'rash, <BR>but it's not [p'shat]<<<BR><BR>....Simply put,
who is any man to give God an ultimatum. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Miriam's "chutzpa" was the kind of imploring,
wheedling behavior a charming child might show towards a doting
parent.</DIV>
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<DIV>As for "Mecheini na misifrecha" I just don't know how it's possible to read
that as a "threat" or an "ultimatum." He said, "Please erase me from Your
book." He didn't say, "If you don't do what I want, I will erase myself
from Your book."</DIV>
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<DIV>I believe that what I wrote IS p'shat.</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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