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At the culmination of the dedication ceremony for the Tabernacle and the altar \u2013 eleven days of offerings and devotion \u00a0– we are told that \u201cwhen Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with God, he would hear the voice addressing him from above the cover that was on top of the Ark of the Pact between the two cherubim; thus God spoke to him (7:89).\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s lean in and read like the rabbis of old. Knowing that the Torah is generally pretty sparse with its words, assuming that less is more, we have to ask about any unnecessary phrase we find. In this case, if the Torah is going to tell us that this is how God spoke to Moses, why does it also need to add that Moses would hear the voice addressing him. Don\u2019t we know that if God speaks, Moses will hear?<\/span><\/p>\n

What, exactly, is added by this seemingly unnecessary addition?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThus God spoke to him.\u201d Okay, God spoke to him. But what is \u201cthus,\u201d the <\/span>way<\/span><\/em> that God speaks? Apparently, that is what the Torah means to convey when it says that \u201cMoses would hear the voice addressing him.\u201d Turns out that hearing the voice is a decision, a choice, a willful turning toward the message, and choosing beyond that to perceive the message as \u201caddressing him\u201d is a second choice: to know that the message isn\u2019t an abstraction, to whom it may concern. No, it is meant for me, right here, right now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moses was willing to hear himself as addressed. The moment demanded of him presence, responsibility, response. It demands that of us as well, all the time, everywhere. And when we turn toward the message with our full presence, our full responsiveness, then that is precisely when God speaks to us.<\/span><\/p>\n

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