It’s not humility to bow your head before those who are greater than you. If they’re greater than you, what do you have to feel superior about? Humility shines most brightly when great men meet even those inferior to them at eye level.
Our enthusiasm transports us and defines us. The fervor of the Jewish People’s destructive impulses in the sin of the golden calf had found its match in their enthusiasm for the building of the Mishkan. Though atonement had been granted prior, now their purity had been reclaimed in completion. The Jewish People were restored to spiritual wholeness once again.