Moshe's Prayer: Combining Prayer and Gift

Therefore the ‘Medrash Rabbah’ holds that even Moshe’s request for a ‘Matnas Chinom’ was an expression of prayer being that Moshe wanted to combine both virtues that even though the Hamshocha is coming in a manner of ‘Matnas Chinom’ (‘Isarussa Dile’eilah’) Moshe wanted it to be extended all the way down into this lowly world (in the place where the prayer is).

Therefore, in Moshe’s prayer there were both aspects: an expression of prayer but [also] in a manner of a request for a ‘Matnas Chinom’.