In the Matter of Humility

22 - In the Matter of Humility In the matter of humility, the world errs greatly, for behold, how much we toil ourselves in services and in prayer to go out from small consciousness to expansive consciousness. And if so, it is impossible that humility be in simplicity, for if so, he enters into small consciousness. And therefore, perforce, there is in this knowledge [ da’as ], and thus not every man can be humble as fitting, only Moses our teacher, peace be upon him, was "humble from all the man that on the face of the earth" [Numbers 12:3]. And our Rabbis, of blessed memory, called humility that is not fitting flattery, as said our Rabbis, of blessed memory ( Sotah 41b), on Jeremiah the prophet that was humble against the prophet of falsehood Hananiah and said to him in humility: Amen, so do Hashem. And said our Rabbis, of blessed memory, on this: All who flatters, etc., in the end falls in the hand of his son, etc.