A Rosh Chodesh Insight

From the Shiur
Rosh Chodesh and Women
Teacher: Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller Class: Jewish Calendar I (Elul and Rosh Hashana)

When Hashem created the sun and the moon, the moon asked Hashem, "Can there be two great lights in the sky" and Hashem said the moon was right and made the sun less. We always think that the moon was asking to be greater, Rebbetzin Heller says we have to look at it from the other perspective and realize that the moon was offering to be the lesser light. This is a true sense of greatness, when someone is willing to make them self less in order to build up another.

One of the greatest female qualities is malchus, putting the crown on Hashems head and not on our own. The moon was willing to give away its greatness in order to let the sun be greater. We should always strive to put the crown on Hashem and not on ourselves.