Parshas Matos: Moshe Rabbeinu and the Middah of Hakaras HaTov

Rabbi Liff explains why Moshe Rabbeinu sent others to fight Midian rather than lead the battle himself — because Midian had taken him in when he fled Pharaoh, and “one who drank from a pit should not throw a stone into it.” Drawing on Reb Chaim Shmulevitz, he shows how hakaras hatov is a middah shetovah and how Moshe fulfilled the command by ensuring it happened without doing it himself.