Mahari Tzvi - 23:20
“הנה אנכי שולח מלאך לפניך לשמרך בדרך, ולהביאך אל המקום אשר הכנותי” – “Behold! I send an angel before you to protect you on the way, and to bring you to the other place that I have prepared.” Hakodosh Boruch Hu tells Moshe Rabbeinu that He will send a Malach to escort Klal Yisroel, instead of Himself, and Moshe does not say anything. In Shemos 32:34, Hakodosh Boruch Hu tells Moshe that He will send a Malach to escort Klal Yisroel, and Moshe Rabbeinu pleads with Hakodosh Boruch Hu not to send a Malach – but rather He, Himself, should escort Klal Yisroel. Why over here is Moshe Rabbeinu quiet when Hakodosh Boruch Hu tells him that a Malach will escort Klal Yisroel, while later when he is told that, he pleads with Hakodosh Boruch Hu not to do so?
Shemos 3:10
“ועתה, לכה ואשלחך אל פרעה” – “And now, go and I will send you to Paroah.” The Arizal asks – “לכה” – that Moshe should go, sounds like he is going on his own, yet then it says, “ואשלחך” – “And I will send you” which tells us that Moshe was a messenger. Was Moshe to go on his own, or was he to be a messenger? The Arizal says that Hakodosh Boruch Hu was sending Moshe Rabbeinu on a dual mission: one was for the good of Klal Yisroel, to take Klal Yisroel out of Mitzrayim, and the other would be for bad, for because of the Shlichus of Moshe, Paroah made the work harder for Klal Yisroel. The Midrash tells us that Hakodosh Boruch Hu does not connect His Name with that which is bad. Thus, when Hakodosh Boruch hu said to Moshe, “לכה ” – that was regarding the bad that it would cause to Klal Yisroel by Paroah increasing their work, and it was as if Moshe went on his own for that. That which the Posuk says, “ואשלחך” that is Hakodosh Boruch Hu sending Moshe for the good of Klal Yisroel, to take them out of Mitzrayim.
Based on this Arizal we can answer our question. Here the Posuk says, “הנה אנכי שולח מלאך לפניך” – Moshe was ok with a Malach being sent, for Hakodosh Boruch Hu attached His Name to the Shlichus, as the Posuk says, “אנכי” and when Hakodosh Boruch Hu attaches His Name to it, it is always for good. Therefore, Moshe was fine with a Malach. However, in Parshas Ki Sisa the Posuk says, “הנה מלאכי ילך לפניך” – it does not have Hashem’s Name here, and the Posuk says, “ילך” – the Malach would be going, but not as a Shlichus of Hakodosh Boruch Hu. This would be bad for Klal Yisroel, thus Moshe Rabbeinu pleaded with Hakodosh Boruch Hu not to send that Malach – but that He Himself should escort them.
