<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#243afc">R' Micha wrote: Doesn't it? You're assuming Hashem's "one hand" is specifically one,<br>as opposed to saying Hashem said place one hand and left it up to Moshe<br>to do what he wants with the second.<br><br>So, his right hand was deOraisa, and his left was a rabbinic or personal<br>embelishment in order to express his wholeheartedness -- that he didn't<br>leave his other hand free to potentially do something else.</font><br><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#243afc"><br></font></div><div>How can you say I'm ''assuming'' HaShem's one hand is specifically one? HaShem</div><div>SPECIFICALLY says: Lean your HAND... (One hand, not two). What could be more specific? </div><div>With your argument, you can say that when HaShem told Moshe to speak to the rock, the</div><div>speaking was d'Oraisa and his striking the rock was a rabbinic or personal embellishment.</div><div>After all, striking the rock was more powerful and certainly was an embellishment. </div><div><br></div><div>Sorry, I can't buy that argument. It isn't cogent. It isn't consistent with how exacting the</div><div>Torah has been up to now. To say that Hashem left it up to Moshe to do what he wants</div><div>with the second hand is, as the Yiddish expression goes, ''mit groben finger'' (pardon the pun).</div><div>If Hashem left it up to Moshe to do what he wants with the second, then what if Moshe wants </div><div>to cover his eyes with the second hand in order to increase his level of kavanna? I think it was</div><div>obvious that the second hand would do nothing but remain by his side. I stand by my original </div><div>argument. If Hashem wanted Moshe to lay both hands, He would have commanded: Lean your hands...</div><div>Hashem knows the difference between singular and plural.</div><div><br></div><div>So my response to the question is ''teiku.''</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>