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Midrash Tanchuma starts with a rather unusual assertion. The plague of darkness took the law in its own hands and delivered a more intense form of darkness than God instructed. One that the Midrash later describes as so palpable that if you were standing you couldn’t sit and if you were sitting, you couldn’t stand.
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Moshe said, ‘I must turn aside to look at this marvelous sight; why doesn’t the bush burn up?’ When God saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him from inside the bush”: (Exodus 3:3-4)
However Midrash Tanchuma adds an entirely different level of meaning. God revealed himself to Moshe because “he recognized the pain.” According to the commentators to Midrash Tanchuma, the “Burning Bush” was actually a test of Moshe’s perception and sensitivity.
Moshe passed the sensitivity test while he was still in Pharaoh’s palace
Instead of settling for an easy life among the Egyptian elite, Moshe identified with the pain of his enslaved brethren: “
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When God wished to give the Torah to Israel He said to them ‘Will you accept my Torah?’ They responded ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘then provide a guarantor that you will keep (the Torah).’”
Let’s face it, God is beyond time so He knows full well whether we were destined to keep the Torah or not. Therefore the question can’t literally be “who will be the guarantor,” but rather, what will motivate the Jewish People to keep the Torah. In fact, from our perspective of living 3,000 years since the Torah was given, we can further define the question of the Midrash. After all, for much of Jewish history the majority of Jews were not observant.