Moshe - Unov

וְהָאִישׁ מֹשֶׁה עָנָיו מְאֹד מִכֹּל הָאָדָם אֲשֶׁר עַל פְּנֵי הָאֲדָמָה

How was Moshe able to be so humble? He must’ve have known his true worth. And even if could think that were people who were greater than him could he actually be more humble than everybody? Were all his gifts and skills only G-d-given talent and not also the product of his labours? Besides for it straining our belief, (there is a Medrish that states exactly the opposite. It says that a King heard about Moshe when the Yidden were in the desert and wanted to get to know him. So he sent an artist from his court to draw a portrait of Moshe. When the artist came back with the portrait the King was incredulous stating that this is a picture of a person who is ugly in character and is a low human being. When he sent his response to Moshe, Moshe replied that you are right, this is the way I was born but I was able to better myself through hard work.) But perhaps this Medrish strains our belief. :)

So back to the point, maybe Moshe wasn’t the hardest working person on the planet but he must’ve been at least a little bit.

Perhaps we can say that even the hard work that Moshe did he was able to be humble about. One way is to say that this was a G-d-given talent. But more so would be to say that he attributed the good things he did to the people who taught them to him or to those that he learned them from. And we could learn Mikal ha’adam with the mem meaning from rather than more than.

Torah T’mimah writes that the greater a person is the harder it is to be an anuv and that Moshe therfore was able to be the greatest Onuv around.

Targum Yonason explains that the Pasuk comes in connection to Miriam’s complaint. That despite him being an onuv he wasn’t Choshesh to their Taaneh. We don't see him reacting. Another Pirush says that they said it in front of him and he didn't react.