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| Moses before the burning bush - Marc Chagall |
The burning bush
The first prophetic encounter between God and Moses will be in the Sinai desert. God then load Moses to be his envoy to free Israel from slavery.
Prophet advance some arguments to reject this role, but will be forced ultimately helped ; by his brother Aaron.
Exodus chapter 4
11 - The Lord replied: "Who gave a mouth to man? Who is dumb or deaf, blind or sighted, if not I the Lord?
Rashi (1040 - 1105)
Who placed a mouth: Who taught you to speak when you are put on trial before Pharaoh because of the Egyptian ( you killed)?
Who makes dumb that made "dumb" Pharaoh, preventing confirm your performance, "deaf" his servants, who have not heard about you on, and "blind" the executioners, who have not seen You get away from the platform of performance when your flight?
Is not me, whose name is Hashem, who did this?
Akadem
the burning bush Moses refuses to do God's will under the pretext that the people have no faith in his remarks. God considers, according to the midrash, this response as a scandal, while the children of Israel are faithful son of believers.
Midrash Haggadah (ed. Buber) Exodus chapter 4
And they will not believe in me: The Holy One, blessed be He, replied: "What have you in your hand ? . Does the Holy One, blessed be He, did not know what he had in his hand? And again why does He turned into a snake? In fact, the Holy One, blessed be He, said, "you hold in your hand the conduct of the original serpent who spoke ill and was struck tsaraât [skin disease that affected the slanderers], as well as you you said "they do not believe in me "When they are faithful son of believers. Believers because it says "the people had faith and so they listened. (Verse 31), son of believers as it says "he [Abraham] had faith in the Lord etc.. "(Gen. XV, 6). And the fact that you meditate on them, you'll be struck tsaraât. Akadem
The burning bush is a small shrub, humble, and typical of the spiny desert.
God's presence here shows us that "there is no place in the world where God is present even where it there are bushes or brambles "(Shemot Raba 2). There is no place where it is not possible to find God.
The Burning Bush openly contradicted laws of nature : in Despite being a dry shrub that will disintegrate rapidly on contact with fire, in this case, it burns, but it does not burn.
Iosei Rabi said: "Why from thistles? When a man puts his hand in the brambles, he has absolutely no harm because the spines are bent downwards. But if he wants to remove his hand, it remains trapped in the thorns. Similarly, the Israelites went down into Egypt and they were very well received ... But when they tried they could not get out, we did not let him ... "(Rabbi Simon Bar Mehilta Iohai)
Encounter of Moses
Moses, D. encounter in the thicket, called "burning bush." In Moses, the movement is not philosophical, in the Greek sense of the term, but existential. Moses did not think God, he thinks the suffering of men. Notes oppression and concludes that in any human relationship, even among slaves, expressed a balance of power, dominating - dominated . God reveals himself to Moses in the bush fire that does not burn. Understand that God's power does not crush the man. The divine fire will not burn the plant, because God keeps his power. The Act is advertised as a restriction of his own desire to be. All power is a power of restraint and non-taxation. The Act serves to limit the tenure for the other is also in its enjoyment. Even love calls his own law. And Moses will Rights Act ( Philippe Haddad )
Exodus chapter 3
1 - Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-priest of Midian. He led the cattle to the bottom of the desert and reached the divine mountain, Mount Horeb.
2 - An angel of the Lord appeared to him in a jet of flame in the midst of a bush. He noticed that the bush was on fire and yet was not consumed.
3 - Moses said: "I want to approach me, I want to look at this great phenomenon, why the bush do not burn? "
4 - The Lord saw that he approached to look, so God called Breast bush, saying:" Moses Moses! " And he answered: "Here I am."
Abraham ibn Ezra (Tudela 1089 - London (?) 1164)
This great miracle: the first sign mentioned in the Torah that God gave to His prophet Moses. This is why He said, "it will be for you a sign that I sent you" (Exodus III, 12).
And this is a good sign, because the enemy is compared fire and Israel to the bush so it does not burn .
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