This parashah details the amount of gold, silver and copper that the nation gave to Moshe for building the Mishkan. In this context, the Midrash (Shemos Rabbah 51 1) calls Moshe Rabbeinu the words we see in the passuk (Mishlei 28:20): “Ish emunos rav brachos,” because the terumos that Am Yisrael brought for the Mishkan were entrusted to Moshe, who was a faithful person, therefore Bnei Yisrael brought a lot of donations, and that’s how the brachah in the Meleches Hamishkan was increased (based on Eitz Yosef ibid).
Another reason for the fact that Moshe was called “ish emunos” is explained by Rav Moshe Dovid Kliegsberg the Rav of Kaluszyn, based on the words of his father-in-law, the Rebbe Rav Yechezkel of Kuzmir, who explained the words of Chazal (Brachos 53b) “gadol ha’oneh amen yoser min hamevarech” as follows: One who answers amen to the brachah of his friend shows that he does not aspire to be the mevarech, and on the contrary, he wants his friend’s brachah to be fulfilled. And because “the ikkar is that every person should want the brachah of his friend to be fulfilled, and not that he should be the mevarech, but rather that his friend should make the brachah and he should answer amen,” that is why “the oneh amen is greater than the mevarech.”
Based on this, we can say that Moshe Rabbeinu, who was the humblest of men, surely did not seek to make the brachah himself, but rather to fulfill he brachos of Am Yisrael by answering amen, and therefore he was called an “ish emunos.”
Nechmad Mizahav
The Chessed L’Avraham of Radomsk said that the name of Moshe also alludes to amen, because the final letters of the words that make up the name Moshe – ם“מ .אמן are שי“ן ה“א
Chessed L’Avraham Parashas Tetzaveh
