A month into their journeying through the Sinai desert the people exhaust their small flour provisions that they carried from Egypt, and become nostalgic about “the flesh pots” and “the fish” that they recall eating even as slaves
On a scale with hubris on one pole and self-abnegation on the other – both extremes contradict the values of Torah – humility is much closer to the latter. Humility – a behavioral conduct -- can only be seen in the presence of other people, when you turn far away from narcissism and the thought that ‘’My power and the might of my own hand have gotten me this wealth’’ (Deuteronomy 8:17).
