6:1 וַיֹּאמֶר יְ־רוָ־ר אֶל מֹשֶׁה עַתָּה תִרְאֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶעֱשֶׂה לְפַרְעֹה
כִּי בְיָד חֲזָקָה יְשַׁלְּחֵם וּבְיָד חֲזָקָה יְגָרְשֵׁם מֵאַרְצוֹ:
The
Gemara in Maseches Sanhedrin 111a (5 lines from the bottom) explains; now you
will see what I shall do to Paroh, meaning the war against Paroh (Yetzias
Mitzrayim.) However, you will not live to see the war against the 31 Kings of
Canaan, meaning you will die before Klal Yisrael reaches Canaan. It seems that
Hashem is saying to Moshe Rabbeinu that it is not befitting that Moshe should
take Klal Yisrael into Eretz Yisrael. What did Moshe do wrong, he complained for
the Kavod of Klal Yisrael?
Rav
Schwab to answer this question asks, why did Kibush and Chaluka of Eretz
Yisrael take 14 years? Klal Yisrael conquered slowly. Why did it have to be
slowly? One of the Middos of Hakadoish Baruch Hu in this world is the Middah of
Mitinois, which means developing things slowly. Rav Schwab calls it the Middah
of Toicheles as in וַיָּחֶל
עוֹד שִׁבְעַת יָמִים אֲחֵרִים וַיֹּסֶף שַׁלַּח אֶת הַיּוֹנָה מִן הַתֵּבָה which is found in Parshas Noach 8:10. In 8:12 we find again, וַיִּיָּחֶל עוֹד שִׁבְעַת יָמִים אֲחֵרִים וַיְשַׁלַּח
אֶת הַיּוֹנָה וְלֹא יָסְפָה שׁוּב אֵלָיו עוֹד
This
shows the Middah of building slowly in this world. It says in Maseches Berachos
32b (24 lines from the top) והא א"ר חייא בר אבא
א"ר יוחנן כל המאריך בתפלתו ומעיין בה סוף בא לידי כאב לב שנא' (משלי יג) תוחלת ממושכה
מחלה לב This means, whoever
prolongs his Davening and expects that his prayer will be granted due to his
having prayed at great length, will eventually suffer heartache because of the
Posuk that is quoted from Mishlei, Prolonged prayer makes the heart sick. This
is as if to say it is a bad Middah to expect Ruchniyos to come right away when
there is a Tefillah for something. A farmer knows when he plants a seed that it
takes awhile until something sprouts and grows. A person who has Mitinois is an
important Middah in Avoidas Hashem. Moshiach is called Avdi Tzemach. Tzemach as
in something that sprouts slowly.
This
was Hashem’s Tayna on Moshe, you go to Paroh and expect that right away the
Yehshua should come. The Ribboinoi Shem Oilam doesn’t work that way. The
Yehshua doesn’t come quickly and suddenly. This was the Chisaroin so to speak
of Moshe Rabbeinu K’madrai’gusoi which the Ribboinoi Shel Oilam said it is good
that you are not going to lead Klal Yisrael into Eretz Yisrael because there it
will take years and your Middah is that you don’t have the appropriate amount
of patience.
There
is a Brisker Rav that discusses the 12th Ani Maamin where it says
regarding Moshiach, Af Al Pi Sheyis’ma’mei’ah, Im Kol Zeh Achakeh Loi. It is
like a Kasha and a Teretz in the Ani Maamin. I am waiting and have Emunah even
though he may delay? The Teretz is, nevertheless I anticipate every day that he
will come. We don’t have a Kasha and a Teretz in any of the other Ani Maamins,
so why here do we? The Brisker Rav answers, that part of the Middah of waiting
for Moshiach is Achakeh Loi which is the same Middah of Toicheles that Rav
Schwab is talking about. To be patient for good things to happen.
Why
do we have a world in which we have to wait patiently for good things to
happen? It is based on a Rabbeinu Yona in Pirkei Avos 3:9. He writes that the
Taivah for something Ruchniyos is what builds up a person. It is not when you
achieve it that you are built up. Moshiach’s coming will not build up Klal
Yisrael. It is the Achakeh (the anticipation) that builds up Klal Yisrael. The
desiring of something is Moisif Ahavah and Chochmoh. Therefore the Ribboinoi
Shle Oilam made it that you have to wait patiently for something good to
happen.
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