דבר תורה לשבת - פרשת האזינו
Starting Early
דברים לב:מד) וַיָּבֹא מֹשֶׁה וַיְדַבֵּר אֶת־כָּל־דִּבְרֵי הַשִּׁירָה־הַזֹּאת בְּאָזְנֵי הָעָם הוּא וְהוֹשֵׁעַ בִּן־נוּן)
And Moshe came and he told all these words of this song in the ears of the nation, he and Hoshaya Ben-Nun.
At the end of this week’s Parasha the Torah tells us that Moshe and Hoshaya Ben-Nun told the people this song referring to the Parasha which is written as a song.
The question is, almost forty years earlier Hoshaya’s name was changed to Yehoshua to help him on his mission to spy on the land of Canaan (Israel). Why now, as he becomes the leader of the B’nai Yisroel, is he referred to as Hoshayaa, his childhood name and not Yehoshua, his name of leadership?
Rashi says, that this is to show that this is the same person as he was when he was younger. This means that he did not become great at an older age, rather he began working on himself at a younger age to become great, therefore he is called by the name of his youth, Hoshaya.
We see from here that greatness is not obtained only in our old age, but it is something that we must work on even from when we are young.
Shabbat Shalom!
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