Thank You for Throwing out this Email

Sadie is having terrible headaches that just won’t go away so she goes to her rabbi to see if there’s anything he can do. She whines, and cries and talks for hours not only about her headache, but about her terrible living conditions as well.
All of the sudden, Sadie shouts, overjoyed, “Rabbi, I think your holy presence has cured me! The headache is completely gone!
To which the rabbi responds, “No, no Sadie, it’s not gone. I have it now.”

Statistics show that one out of four people has not read even one book from cover to cover over the last year! With that in mind, there’s a 25% chance that you have not seen the final pages of a book in quite a long time…
I’m sure however, that no matter if you are a book worm or have a diagnosed phobia from literature, this is one thing we can agree on: no book concludes with these words, “Thank you for ripping up this book!” and
that simple point needs no explanation, for it’s basic common sense.
Common sense, but not G-dly sense.
This Wednesday we conclude the year long cycle of the weekly readings of the Torah. So before we roll back the scroll to the beginning, let’s us at least grab a look at the final words of the Bible:
“And there was no other prophet who arose in Israel like Moses… as manifested by all the signs and wonders… and all the strong hand, and all the great awe, which Moses performed before the eyes of all Israel.”
What strong hand and awesome deed did Moshe perform before the eyes of all Israel?
The commentator Rashi explains that this refers to the breaking of the tablets. When Moses came down from the mountain and saw the terrible sin of the golden calf he smashed the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments. Rashi Says, that by wrapping up the Torah with this episode, G-d was telling Moshe “This was your greatest deed ever, and thank you for breaking the tablets!”
Huh? Is that the way one concludes a book, by thanking the publisher who threw it out of the window? And what lesson are we supposed to learn from all of this?
One second, before we question the reason for mentioning this episode, let us first understand Moshe’s motive for breaking the tablets. Why did he throw them away? What was his motive?
Well, Moshe was on the way to deliver the constitution of the Jews from heaven. The Jews had so far only heard the reading of the constitution at Sinai, but they had not yet received the actual contract (tablets).
Meaning that they can not yet be punished for violating Commandment #2, “You shall not have the gods of others in My presence,” For they have not received the contract!
So Moshe smashed it, and with that saved his nation. And that was Moshe’s greatest achievement!
The lesson: G-d is teaching us that there is something more important than study – the Jew. Hence, at the finally of G-d’s magnum opus He tells us: “Yes, all I Write here is important, but what is more important is
the love and sacrifice for your fellow man.”