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his week's Torah
Clearly, God could have
portion is an
given the laws applying
exhaustive list of
to the priesthood and
laws applying to the priest-
the Tabernacle directly to
hood and the Tabernacle.
Aaron. However, God inten-
Repeatedly, God tells Moses
tionally used Moses as an
to pass on law after law to
intermediary to give Moses
Aaron and his sons.
experience and self-confi-
Jere my Liss
However, this tedious
dence in order to help him
Specia I to the reach his full potential.
process could easily be
Jewis h News
avoided. Aaron, like Moses,
Moses' lack of self-con-
also received prophecy from
fidence kept him from
God, as it says in Exodus
realizing his own potential.
5:7,"Then God said to Aaron, `Go to
However, God refused to allow Moses
meet Moses in the wilderness. Then
to doubt himself, and forced Moses to
he went and met him at the mountain
utilize all of his abilities to become the
of God, and he kissed him."
leader that God had destined him to
Why is it that God gives all of the
be. Through perseverance and prac-
laws that pertained specifically to
tice, Moses eventually developed into
Aaron through Moses, rather than
one of the greatest leaders the Jewish
command Aaron directly?
people have ever known.
The answer lies not in Aaron's lack
We, too, must also work to achieve
of ability, but in Moses' lack of con-
our full potential. In modern society
fidence. Although God intentionally
it is easy to fall prey to assimilation
makes Moses the leader of the Jewish
and other similar fates. Despite social
people, Moses is reluctant to accept
pressures, we must look inside our-
his divinely appointed position. Moses selves and realize our full potential as
repeatedly attempts to find reasons
Jews, and as human beings. ❑
why he should not be God's chosen
leader.
In Exodus 4, Moses begs God to
choose someone else despite God's
Conversations
assurances. Finally, after God goes so
far as to give Moses three miracles,
Discuss some of the other
Moses raises his final and underlying
leaders of the Jewish people
objection:
throughout our history, noting
"Moses replied to God,`Please, my
their strengths and weaknesses.
Lord, I am not a man of words; not
In what ways can you maximize
since yesterday, nor since the day before
your potential as a Jew?
yesterday, nor since you first spoke to
your servant, for I am slow of speech
and slow of tongue'"(Exodus 4:10).
Jeremy Lis, a Southfield resident,
Whether this means that Moses
is a freshman at the Jewish Academy
had a speech impediment, was not
of Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington
fluent in Hebrew or that he was not a
Hills.
"people person," Moses did not \vant
to be a leader because he doubted
his own abilities. To make matters
worse, in Exodus 6:9, the first time
Moses delivers a divine message to the
Jewish people by himself, the people
ignore him.