Parshas Ve’zos Ha’Beracha - B for Effort
~Thoughts on The Parsha ~ Parshas Ve’zos Ha’Beracha B for Effort By: Daniel Listhaus וּלְכֹל הַיָּד הַחֲזָקָה וּלְכֹל הַמּוֹרָא הַגָּדוֹל אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה משֶׁה לְעֵינֵי כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל “…And for all the strong hand, and for all the great awesomeness that Moshe performed before the eyes of all Yisroel ” - Ve’zos Ha’Berachah 34:12 After restating the uniqueness and greatness of Moshe rabbeinu , the very last passuk (verse) of the Torah states, “…And for all the strong hand and for all the great awesomeness that Moshe performed before the eyes of all Yisroel ”. [1] Rashi [2] comments that when the passuk says “the strong hand”, it refers to Moshe’s receiving the luchos with his hands. The Sifsei chachomim [3] further explains that indeed it took a strong hand to be able to carry the luchos , as the luchos were extremely heavy. This Rashi presents a difficult problem. We know that during the B’neio Yisroel’s traveling in the midbar (desert), the aron , which held th