Parshas Va'eira: Moshe Rabbeinu's Speech Impediment

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How could the Torah describe Moshe Rabbeinu with a speech impediment? One commentary on the parsha explains that dibur comes from the bond of seichel and guf, and Moshe Rabbeinu's guf was so loosely tied to his neshama that his impediment was a maaleh. A later sefer asks why, in the Midrash Rabbah, Moshe Rabbeinu could speak once the Torah was given, and answers that only Torah raises gashmius to meet ruchnius.

Key points

• In one commentary's words, speech depends on seichel, so a child speaks only once it matures.
• Moshe Rabbeinu's guf barely held his neshama, so his impediment was a maaleh, that commentary says.
• A later sefer answers that Torah raised the guf, so Moshe Rabbeinu's guf and neshama fully connected.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The question on Moshe's speech
2. 2:11Koach hadibur and seichel
3. 3:40Learning Torah in the mother's womb
4. 6:19The mashal of the jacket
5. 10:21A question from the Midrash Rabbah
6. 11:58Torah raises the guf
7. 14:14Eating, drinking and sleeping raised to kedusha

Topics

• Moshe Rabbeinu
• Koach HaDibur
• Guf and Neshama