By Judah Graber In Bamidbar 27:18, Hashem asks Moshe to appoint Yehoshua as the next leader of Klal Yisrael: “וַיֹּאמֶר ה׳ אֶל־מֹשֶׁה קַח־לְךָ אֶת־יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בִּן־נוּן אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר־רוּחַ בּוֹ וְסָמַכְתָּ אֶת־יָדְךָ עָלָיו.” The Netziv highlights the interesting lashon of “קַח־לְךָ”- “take for yourself.” What does it mean, “for yourself”? As opposed to whom? He explains that it means for Moshe’s own hana’ah, his own pleasure, because Yehoshua was Moshe’s talmid muvhak, and the