Reply To: Sharing my Torah thoughts

In the first Mishna of Pirkei Avot, it says that Moshe “kibel” Torah m’Sinai. I saw somewhere (can’t remember where) that it says “kibel” because to accept the Torah, it needs to be a full acceptance – you need to accept that the Torah is perfect, and that even though times may change, the Torah does not. As much as you think you may know better, you really don’t – Hashem is better, and the Torah will always be correct.
My thought is that this is the reason why it says m’Sinai, and not Moshe kibel Torah m’Hashem. We all know the story of Har Sinai – it was the mountain which was humble. Moshe was the greatest anav who ever lived. To accept the Torah, we need to learn the lesson of Sinai, and humble ourselves, to realize that we aren’t as knowledgeable as we may think we are.

Additionally, I wondered why it says u’m’sarah l’Yehoshua – why not say v’natan l’Yehoshua? I think a reason may be that when you GIVE something, you don’t retain it for yourself. But when it comes to Torah, you’re not giving it, you’re sharing it. You still retain what you shared.

Then I thought it can’t be correct, because every day, we say noten ha’Torah – the GIVER of the Torah. But then I realized that Hashem did, in fact, GIVE the Torah to us. After Matan Torah, we say Torah lo ba’Shamayim hee! Hashem didn’t keep it for Himself, He gave it to us! That’s why we can say noten ha’Torah regarding Hashem.