Bs”d
Parshas Aikev (5770)
by Mordechai Dolinsky
Rashi (10:1) enlightens us that although Moshe was told to make his Aron for the luchos after receiving them, he understood that they had to be made prior so that he would have a place for them. The supreme lesson: we must never stop using our sechel. This was the aron that accompanied them to battle; symbolic for the greatest battle which is with the yetzer hara. We must always use our sechel.
Have wonderful Shabbos.