Parshas Tetzava

The Baal Haturim points out that Moshe’s name is not mentioned in this weeks Parsha. One of the reasons he says, is that when Moshe was begging Hashem to forgive Klal Yisroel after the sin of the Eigal, he said to Hashem forgive them or erase my name from the Torah. It would seem that this was a punishment for him - offering to be erased from the Torah - so Hashem erased his name from just one Parsha. This is hard to believe for he sacrificed himself for the sake of Klal Yisroel, so why would he be punished? The Chidushai Harim explains this with a Gemorah. The Gemorah (Baba Kamah 60b) says that if one puts himself in danger for the sake of divrei Torah, we don’t say over Halacha in his name. This also is hard to believe that it is a punishment.
Every member of Klal Yisroel’s neshoma is in essence Torah (Yisroel, Torah and Hashem are all one). The only thing that divides us from the Torah is our guf- our physical bodies.
When one puts his life on the line for the sake of Torah, he is detaching his body from his soul and thus all that remains is just the neshoma which is in essence the same as Torah itself. We cannot say over the Torah in his name for being that the Torah is detached from his physical being it’s not his in a phyiscal sense - it’s/he's pure Torah. So too Moshe, being that he gave himself up for the sake of Klal Yisroel got to the level that the torah doesn’t speak about him as it does in the other Parshas, but rather he becomes synonymous with Torah and is addressed just by the word “Vatah”. For in this weeks Parsha Moshe and Torah are one.
P.S. Further study has to be done why this is expressed in Parshas Tetzaveh and not any other parsha. Take a peek at the Alshich in this weeks Parsha, and Masseh Rokeach on the Mishkan.

Parsha Point to Ponder

We find that Moshe davened 515 tefillos trying to reverse the decree that he cannot go into Eretz Yisroel.
Why do we not find Aron - who recieved the same decree at the same time- davening at all for the privilge to enter the holy land?

Parshas Beshalach

At the end of the Parsha we learn of the war Amalek waged with Klal Yisroel. The Posuk tells us that when Moshe raised his hands Klal Yisroel would win the war.
The Sefas Emes asks why then did Moshe ever cease from holding his hands raised?

The Mishna asks “Is it the hands of Moshe that wins wars?” To which the Mishna answers “When Klal Yisroel would look up to the heavens and devout their hearts to Hashem they would be victorious.”

Why is it so hard to fathom that it was Moshe’s hands that helped Klal Yisroel win? Klal Yisroel just came out of Mitzraim where Moshe’s hands brought devastation onto a country and split the Red Sea for them, why is the Mishna bothered about the powers of Moshe’s hands?
The kochos of a leader are only as powerful as the people he is representing. In Egypt the miracles were performed as the messenger of Hashem and thus Moshe and Aaron were quiet successful. At this stage of history Moshe acted as a messenger of Klal Yisroel and thus his powers came from the merits of the nation. The Mishna wants to know where did Moshe get the kochos to keep his hands raised high? To which the answer is, if Klal Yisroel keeps their eyes on Hahsem and their hearts and souls devoted to Him, then they can help Moshe and give him the strength to keep his hands up towards the heavens and in his merit be victorious.

Amalek held that we don’t have bechira and our actions are meaningless. (See last years Vaad on Parshas Zachor)To teach Klal Yisroel that our actions and deeds can- and do- affect and shake the entire world, they were given this very lesson as they were fighting their spiritual enemy- Amalek.