Derashos haRan – Derashah #3, Chaburah #3

Derashos haRan – Derashah #3, Chaburah #3

In this meeting, we continued the Ran’s discussion of why Moshe had a speech impediment. And how does Hashem’s answer — “who gave the human a mouth…” — address the question? The Ran’s discussion revolves around causing things by commission, and when do we say that something is caused by omission? And does the answer differ if we are speaking of human inaction or Hashem not Acting?

The text is available with footnotes at https://www.aishdas.org/kloiz/Derashos-haRan-derashah-3.pdf (starting at ¶ 8).

Or on Sefaria, beginning at https://www.sefaria.org/Derashot_HaRan.3.7

Derashos haRan is an explanation of the fundamentals of the Torah as explicated from texts in the Chumash. In the third derashah, the Ran discusses Moshe, Aharon, the nature of nevu’ah, Moshe’s special kind of nevu’ah,, the urim vetumim, and the first mitzvos given to the Jewish People — counting months from Nissan and of Pesach.


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