Moses and the burning bush

Torah is a human right, the right to a healthy and high quality state of consciousness.
One of the greatest symbols of Biblical stories is found in the story of Moses at the burning bush. This essential episode relates the encounter between the human being and the Divine, manifest through the burning bush, where Moses heard the Voice of the angel commanding him to go on the journey of liberating his enslaved people. The first thing Moses heard was “take your sandals off your feet, for the land upon which you tread is holy ground”. This land was Mount Sinai. Sinai is a direct reference to the Hebrew word Sene for ‘bush’. The miracle at the encounter, was that the “bush was not consumed” by the flames. Also, speaking in the Name of the “God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob”, the Voice ordered Moses to return with the entire nation of Israel to that very place, saying “you will worship Me in this mountain”, as a reference to the giving of the 10 commandments on Mount Sinai, which was to take place later. What was the worship done at the time of the giving of the Law ? There were no sacrifices made, no fasting or praying done at Mount Sinai, so what was the worship implied by this statement ? The whole of worship was incapsulated at Mount Sinai by the children of Israel upon receiving the Torah, when they said “all that God spoke we shall DO, and we shall HEAR” in Hebrew ‘Naase veNishma’.
This means that if it were not for the sin of the golden calf, all that would have been needed would have been to study the Torah, as only worship of G-d.  “We will do” all that is written and “we will hear” the Oral law interpreted by our Prophets and Sages. The dimension of doing is accomplished by the obligation of studying of the actual letters of the Written Law, and the dimension of hearing, through the obligation of studying the Oral Law. This was the entire worship, originally required and designed for a nation of purified individuals, in which no inclination to idol worship was found. This is why Moses had to see that the bush was not consumed by fire, because through the strength of Torah learnt both scripturally and orally its teachings will last forever. Torah can do all the things Moses was shown.
The turning of the rod to a snake and back to a rod, the turning of healthy skin to leprosy and back to healthy, signify the power of the study of Torah over the material powers of this world, which are under the strict governance of time, whereas studying Torah can reverse the flow and potential damages of time. Moses had to take off his sandals to connect to the holiness of that ground, where this worship encapsulated in two words was to take place, to appreciate the immense power of Torah study, which causes space to become holy even in advance. The encounter at the burning bush being for the purpose of the giving of Torah in the same place, makes it that every detail of what took place at the burning bush, is permeated with references to the power and purpose of Torah. Torah purifies the mouth so the mouth can speak the name of God which was revealed at the burning bush.
The way of calling the Holy Name is by study of Torah as main activity.
Moses was shown his mission as giver of Torah being the first in the chain of its teachers.
But he would not be the only one as the teachers of the oral Law would come after him to expound every Letter and every tradition Moses was given. Teachers like Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Hananya Rabbi Akiba and Rabbi Shimon would equal Moses in Torah greatness, thus fulfilling “I Shall Be That I Shall Be”. This is why Moses, being humble, said when he was shown these great teachers “Send through the hand you will send”, as he foresaw their coming greatness. The significance of these verses relating the exodus from slavery to receiving Torah are here to remind us that liberation and quality of consciousness are intimately connected. The purpose of being free from the poison of oppression is to come to the point where we have access to the healthy nourishment of our minds, hearts and souls.