Snakes and Ladders

Klal Yisrael begs Moshe Rabbeinu to remove "the snake", one snake, though the pasuk has just described many. Why the singular? And if Chizkiyahu was praised for smashing the copper snake, why didn't Moshe break it himself once its job was done? The Ben Ish Chai reads the scene in a way that reaches every person's daily battles. In a Gemara in Berachos, a deadly snake is terrorizing a town, and Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa asks to be shown its hole. What he carries into the beis midrash afterward is the whole lesson. It changes what you blame when things go wrong.Thank you to Yona Veffer for your studio equipment. Produced by Eli Podcast Production לע"נ לאה בת יונה