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MOSHE9S MONARCHY
Submitted by Rabbi Zvi Zimmerman, Rebbe, FYHS, and Mashgiach
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"Make for yourself two silver trumpets. You should make them beaten, and they will be yours
to call together the congregation and cause the camps to begin traveling.= BeMidbar 10:2
One of the reasons given for the trumpets was to show Moshe's Malchus, that he was the King of
Klal Yisrael, and a king has music and trumpeters accompanying him wherever he goes. But
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Moshe9s personal money and not with communal funds. This ruling is brought in Yoma 3b as well.
Rav Moshe Feinstein points out the curiosity of such an idea. If these instruments were meant
to be used for a king and his purposes, why would it have to be paid for out of his pocket? The
community should pay for these trumpets, not the king! Perhaps the answer is that a king is
normally appointed by the people, but Moshe was simply the person chosen by Hashem to
redeem the people from Mitzrayim, to give them the Torah, and to teach them what they
needed to know. He was actually a shepherd of the people, not a king. However, even though
Moshe was not appointed a king, he was technically a king, although his appointment
happened on its own! Hashem thus gave him the authority of a king even though he was
never anointed as one or proclaimed as one by the people. That is why he was given these
trumpets to blast before him, to give him that authority and force them all to come to him.
But that leads to another issue. If he was not a king, he should not have been allowed to
take communal funds to pay for something that he needed, such as these ï½ í µçûç ·×. He was
not allowed to benefit from others without being officially authorized to do so. This may also
be because his authority stemmed from his teaching of the Torah to them and we hold
that one cannot receive money for teaching Torah.
This explains why these ï½ í µçûç ·× had to be hidden after he died, since no one else can use
the objects of a king. No one else had his special status, even if Yehoshua had the status of
a king himself (since he was appointed by Moshe Rabbeinu, the previous king). His ï½ í µçûç ·×
were his and his alone.
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