Yet that fundamental expectation is nowhere to be found in the Torah as a mitzvah. All we read about humility is the words in praise of Moses, saying that he was more humble than all the other people. To think humility a commandment is the prompting of Satan. He blows up a mans heart, telling him he is learned and righteous and devout, a master of all good works, and worthy to think himself better than the general run of people, but that thinking so would be proud and impious since the commandment is that he must be humble to put himself on a par with others. And a man who interprets humility as a commandment and keeps it as such only feeds his pride the more in doing so.
Pride is the enemy of humility and precludes it.
We know of pride that in a person who is full of himself, there is no room for God. Torah reading, Ekev, presents us with a puzzle. Though the Torah tells us of Moses humility. In this week's parasha we read an unusual statement that is made by Moses in his address to the Jewish people. His harsh critique seems out of character for Moshe Rabbeinu, who always praised and lauded the Jewish people.