Parshat D'varim
And so begins The Long Goodbye. D'varim (Deuteronomy), the final book of the Torah, opens just 37 days before the death of Moses at 120-years-old. Poised with the people on "the other side of the Jordan", Moses has a final chance to address, advise, admonish, and inspire the next generation of Israelites, those who will be blessed enough to enter The Promised Land, fulfilling the destiny of Jewish peoplehood. "It was in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh mont