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@Daas Yochid,
“SHY, I did read it all, thank you.”
Thank you for reading it. It shows a certain intellectual honesty when you take the time to read through an entire megillah.
“You can call him transparent in his transmission of the Torah, but he wasn’t Hashem, ch”v, he was still a human being, as much a separate entity as other human beings.”
Nowhere did I imply that Moshe Rabbeinu was the Aibershter. Chas vesholom.
But Moshe Rabbeinu had such a deep bittul (vehaish Moshe anov meod mikol adom) that his own proclivities didn’t only not get in the way – they didn’t exist. That’s how it was שכינה מדברת מתוך גרונו. In Chassidus you have the idea of two levels of Bittul, ביטול היש , and ביטול במציאות. A true Tzaddik like Moshe Rabbeinu ע”ה had attained the level of ביטול במציאות.
The first level of ביטול, ביטול היש is when I have my own רצונות, and I put them aside for the Aibershter, (בטל רצונך בפני רצונו)
making Hashems Ratzon my Ratzon.
ביטול במציאות however, is that I don’t have a רצון כלל. Like Moshe Rabbeinu said ונחנו מה.
If you’d like, I can expound further.