- The inability of Moshe to דב"ר אל הסלע was because he was לא איש דברים! This was exactly the same reason that he was unable to be a דבר לפרעה: he said he sees no point in speaking only in מכות! Just what he did to the סלע—and holding the very same מטה, no less! The essence of human impact must be דבר as in דבר אחד לדור- ידבר עמים תחתנו. But to do so requires that דיבור be an expression of an absolute reality that the human will no longer question. This he was capable of doing only in the דיבור of Torah per se, but could still get angry with שמעו נא המורים which is the entry into a different reality—exactly how Rambam sees the חטא in שמעו נא המורים representing the דבר השם which it did not! Thus Rashi and מורי ורבי רבינו משה זצללה"ה are precisely the same issue, for the hitting was the imperfection of דיבור. That is why in אלה הדברים where Moshe becomes fully capable of דיבור, he tries again and again to address the קל וחומר of the סלע. But that קל וחומר is central to the entire question of why there is no success at דיבור, for without it בלעם is right, and דיבור becomes a tool of manipulation itself rather than a direct translation of mind into technology. This is why תורה מפיהו כי מלאך השם וגו’ and אם דומה הרב למלאך א’ למד תורה מפיהו—only a direct שלוחו של אדם כמוהו is a מלאך and the anger made that impossible until after dealing with בלעם immediately after חוקת!
As long as דיבור is given to בלעם as well, then במה יודע איפוא-אל תעלינו מזה. And in that sense, as long as our own דיבור comes from a place upon which בלעם can be שולט entirely, even במקרה, that דיבור does not have the power to דבר anything. This is my underlying problem, as I recognized so long ago that שבת I spoke to the yeshiva at שדרות המאירי...when Shaya asked me who I had in mind and I was ashamed to say that it was myself.
But how incredible that we should have recognized so early in the Torah the nature of information per se as the essence of creativity and power, that דיבור is essentially the DNA of creation, that memes are genes, creatively working in the formation of reality. More and more it is becoming clear that information is technology, that דיבור is דֲבֵּר.

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