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The following is from RSRH's commentary on Bamidbar 10: 31 - 32<br><br>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b>10: 31
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>But he said: Please do not
leave us! For I am asking this because you are familiar with the places
of our camping in the wilderness and you<br>
can serve us as eyes.<br><br>
</i>10: 32 <i>If you go with us, it shall be that the same good
that </i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>God
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>in His goodness will do
for us, we will do for you.<br><br>
</i></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>This request that
Moshe made of his father-in-law and recorded for<br>
all time is of great importance, for the request that his
father-in-law<br>
should help them with his judgment and with his knowledge of the<br>
terrain can bring us to a correct evaluation of Moshe’s mission.<br><br>
As we have already seen
(</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>Shemos
</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>18:13-27), Yisro’s
organizational<br>
advice proves that Moshe did not have the organizational skills
required<br>
of a state-building lawmaker. Likewise, the fact related here refutes
all<br>
the idle chatter about Moshe’s knowledge of the ways of the
wilderness,<br>
according to which the Divine wonder of our journeying in the
wilderness<br>
is merely the result of clever and shrewd leadership. Moshe, who<br>
needed the advice of his father-in-law in order to organize the
judicial<br>
system and to make proper arrangements for the camps, and recorded<br>
both of these instances for everlasting memory among his people —<br>
this man could not have led his people and given it Torah on his
own;<br>
he could have accomplished it only as the instrument of God. He
would<br>
have been the very last person to ascribe to himself a halo of
superhuman<br>
insight and miraculous power (cf. Commentary,
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><i>Shemos
</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>18:24).</font></body>
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