When weakness can become a strength.

Have you ever felt inadequate to a task you've been assigned or a job you've been given?

Do you sometimes feel that other people have too high an estimate of your abilities?

Has there been a moment when you felt like a faker, a fraud,

and that at some time you'd be found out and discovered to be

the weak, fallible, imperfect human being you know in your heart you are.

If so, according to Rashi on this week's parasha,

you are in very good company indeed.

Here is the setting.

The Mishkan, the sanctuary was finally complete.

For seven days, Moses had consecrated Aaron and his sons to serve as priests.

Now that time had come for them to begin their service.

Moses gives them instructions, and then he says

the following words to Aran, come near to the altar, and offer your sin offering and your burnt

offering, and make atonement for yourself and the people, sacrifice the offering that's for the people,

and make atonement for them as the Lord has commanded.

The sages were puzzled by that instruction come near.

This seems to imply that Aaron until then had kept a distance from the altar.

Why so?

Rushie gives the following explanation.

He says Aaron was ashamed and fearful of approaching the altar.

So Moses said to him, why are you ashamed? It was for this that you were chosen.

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