821. We Will Do and We Will Hear – 2
In the verse, “And the man Moses was very humble,” the meaning of humbleness is lowliness, meaning that person annuls himself before the other, not necessarily in external annulment, but also internally. Externality means that which is revealed outside, which is regarded as “revealed,” when it is visible to everyone that he does not consider himself as anything, but that he regards his friend as being at a higher degree than his own. This is shown by the things he does before his friend.
But there is also internality, called “hidden.” These are the thought and the mind, which he must also annul before his friend. This is the meaning of “My soul shall be as dust to all.” The question is, How can an intelligent and knowledgeable person say that his mind will be annulled before each and every one, while he knows and feels that he is a hundred times higher than his friend?
However, there is a discernment of “part,” and there is a discernment of “all.” The collective is higher than the individual, and one must annul before each and every part, in that he is part of the “all.” In other words, the whole of Israel, although they do not have such great importance individually, with respect to the collective, each one is very important from the perspective of the whole collective.
One must annul his personal needs before the needs of the collective, and since man must annul his view and thought before the Creator, he must accustom himself in externality, called “doing.” This is called “We will do.” All those annulments will influence him so he can annul his mind and thought before the Creator.
It therefore follows that one who is more opinionated has more work annulling himself before the Creator. Conversely, one who is a fool has no opinion to annul because he has no opinion. It follows that the whole merit of knowledge is in having something to annul. Only for this should one aspire for knowledge. One who is not ready for this, it is better for him not to have knowledge.
This is called “his wisdom is more than his deeds,” meaning he is more opinionated than he can annul, since annulment is called “doing” and not “hearing.” “Hearing” means understanding, and “doing” is only power without knowledge. This is “We will do and we will hear,” meaning that if he has the power of “doing” then he can receive “hearing” because his basis is faith and not knowledge.