Humility Creates Salvations:
Rav Yisroel Berger zt”l, the Rov of Bucharest, related (cited in Sefer Eser Kedushos, Pesicha to Tinyana) that when he was first appointed to serve as a Rov, the Yitav Lev zy”a told him the following:
“You look at me now and see that everyone considers me a Rebbe and a miracle worker who accomplishes a lot in the world, and people are afraid of me. The truth is, however, that I am nothing at all. Still and all, I can accomplish a lot by being a nothing. Since I know that I am nothing, I bend down before everyone else, and, in this way, I can accomplish many things.”
He used this idea to explain that when Hashem asked Moshe: “What is that in your hand?”, He was asking him what good middos he had. Moshe answered that he had “the stick.” He was saying that he could bend himself for any man. Hashem then told him to take “that stick” in his hand. He was saying that this middah of humility could be used to perform great miracles as a leader of the nation.
