T190 PNC - Moses Returns the Words of the People to Hashem

"And Moses returned the words of the people to Hashem" (Exodus 19:8). The tzaddik is the great mediator. When the people respond — "all that Hashem has spoken we will do" — Moses takes their words back up to heaven. This is the tzaddik's essential role: he collects the prayers, the yearnings, the commitments of the people and carries them upward. But he does more — when Hashem speaks from the thick cloud, His voice reaches the people through the tzaddik. The channel flows in both directions.