<div dir="ltr">After the cheit hameraglim Hashem tells Moshe that he wants to destroy the Jewish people. Moshe then davens to Hashem and says, if you destroy the Jewish people the goyim will say that you didn't have enough strength to bring the Jewish people into the Land of Israel.<div>
<br></div><div style>Why does Moshe make a logical argument to hashem? Did he think he would persuade Hashem with his logic?</div><div style><br></div><div style>There is a general question as to why we daven. After all, Hashem is omniscient and therefore he doesn't need us to tell him what we need and Hashem is perfect so we aren't going to change his mind. The Rishonim/Acharonim give various answers such as, Tefilla is for us to become closer to Hashem and/or to become better/different people or that Hashem set up the world (for whatever reason) that we need to daven for things. In any case, none of these explain why a person would make logical arguments with Hashem. They don't seem to serve any person when davening to Hashem. </div>
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