Shemini

‎‎‎Our Parsha’s title signifies the eighth day of the inauguration of the Mishkan where the Kohanim performed a special service initiating their new roles as those eligible to serve in the Mishkan.  During one of the offerings, Moshe got angry at the Kohanim, asking why they burnt it instead of eating it? When Aaron answered him & Moshe realized that Aaron was correct, the posuk says, וישמע משה וייטב בעיניו , Moshe heard & he approved.    

The gemara praises Moshe for his willingness to admit that, while he had learned the law, he had now forgotten it. Despite his great stature, he didn’t take the easy way out and say that he never heard it from Hashem. Instead, he took responsibility for having forgotten this specific law.  
Reb Chaim Shmulevitz can’t understand this great praise of Moshe Rabeinu, that he told the truth. If this were a regular person, it might be great praise. However, by Moshe Rabeinu we would expect the truth as a matter of course. What's the Torah trying to teach us?

Once Reb Nosson Dovid of Shidlovitza spent a Shabbos with his Rebbe R' Chaim of Sanz. At the table, Reb Chaim asked him to say over a Torah thought. Not wanting to speak in front of his Rebbe but unable to refuse, he said,  וישמע משה וייטב בעיניו , Moshe heard & he approved. What did he approve of? Usually Moshe would talk & Aaron would listen; now Aaron spoke & Moshe listened. When Moshe heard the Torah from the mouth of Aaron instead of saying it himself, he approved, realizing that sometimes it's better to listen to others teach then always teaching yourself.  
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The Chazon Ish would take a daily walk for health reasons. He had a daily route that he followed every day. There was a simple Jew who lived along the route who, after seeing an older, respectable looking man taking walks every day, decided to have a talk with him.  The next day, when the Chazon Ish took his walk, this man walked up to him & said "why are you wasting your time going for walks?  Go learn something!  If you don't know how to learn, then say tehillim!" The Chazon Ish didn't answer him & by the next day had totally forgotten the incident. As the Chazon Ish was walking the next day, once again this man came over & started yelling at him for wasting his time.This time the Chazon Ish asked him, “so what would you like me to do with my time?” “Say some tehillim”, the man answered. Starting the next day, the Chazon Ish took a different route. 

Sometime later, when a member of this person’s family became ill, someone suggested that he go see the great sage that lived nearby, the Chazon Ish. When he entered the house & saw who the Chazon Ish was, he fainted!

When the man woke up, he begged the Chazon Ish for forgiveness. The Chazon Ish said, “I have nothing to forgive you for. You gave me good advice to say tehillim.  Since the day you gave me that advice, I have followed it. Why would I be angry at you?”
The Chazon Ish was willing to take advice from anyone; if he could learn something from someone then he didn’t care who was greater. The greatest person can learn from the lowest. 

This is what the Torah teaches us by relating that Moshe admitted that he forgot & was willing to learn from Aaron who was his student.  Moshe, who was the greatest of all men, showed by example that we could admit we don't know something and be willing to learn from anyone who could teach us!

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