Rachel's Crown and Leah's Shoes

The Humility of Moshe Rabbeinu, "Upon Edom I will cast my shoe" • To merit connecting to the Tefillin anew every day • Until when must Moshe live?

Monday, 20th of Menachem Av - The Daily Chizuk (strengthening) from the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a (may he live long and good days)

It is written that Hashem (God) will make peace between David, Achitophel, and Doeg, "Upon Edom I will cast my shoe" (Psalms 60:10).

"Upon Edom" refers to Doeg the Edomite, "my shoe" (na'ali) - what is a shoe?

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Because [this refers to the fact that] the feet of Leah enter into the crown of Rachel. The feet of Leah are the crown of Rachel; therefore, "Upon Edom I will cast my shoe," because "what humility made a heel for its sole, fear [of Heaven] made a crown for its head" (Jerusalem Talmud, Shabbat Chapter 1, Halacha 3).

That is to say, the crown of the Yirah (awe/fear of Heaven) comes from the shoe of Leah, "Upon Edom I will cast my shoe" - what is "my shoe"? It is the shoe of Leah!

For Moshe (Moses) merited the aspect of Leah, "The knot of the Tefillin (phylacteries) He showed to the humble one" (Shir HaKavod prayer) - Moshe merited such humility, he merited the knot of the Tefillin. Moshe reached the level of the knot of the Tefillin; he reached such a high level, because the highest level is the knot of the Tefillin, which is Leah.

For Rachel is the Tefillin of the hand, while Zeir Anpin (the "Small Face" - a Kabbalistic configuration of Divine attributes) is the Tefillin of the head. A person must put on Tefillin every day; a day must not pass without him putting on Tefillin from the age of 13 until the age of 120. And therefore Moshe passed away at the age of 120; people always say, "May you live until 120 years" like Moshe.

Moshe needs to live even up to a thousand years. Adam HaRishon (the first man) lived until 930, then David came and completed it to a thousand.