Episode 6 – Devarim: Moshe’s Farewell Speech |This week, we open the last book of the Chumash with Parshat Devarim. Moshe has fully overcome his early speech difficulties to deliver a month-long farewell address, the Mishne Torah, to the people of Israel on the edge of the Promised Land, which they will enter without him. His words are both rebuke and encouragement, memory and warning, and they are recorded not just as Moshe's parting words at the "bus stop" but as God’s word itself. Along the way, we reflect on other farewells — from George Washington’s to the parting scenes of the movie Hair — and on our own personal experience saying goodbye at moments we cannot cross with them. |We explore:• Why is the last book of the Torah is entirely Moshe’s speech, and how each of the Five Books of Moshe is tied to the theme of speech?• The place, time, and context of the speech: why does it matter that Moshe begins with a careful rebuke, recalling where things went wrong like the Golden Calf?• Moshe’s retelling of the story of the spies: what changes from the first telling and why does he make the spies his first issue in explaining why he cannot enter the Land?• The Torah’s special connection to the Land of Israel: are we building snow sleds for the sand dunes of diaspora?• How long does it really take to travel through the Sinai and what does that say about the people’s journey and mistakes?• What is difference between the leader who brings the people to the Land and the leader who leads them within it?| Parshat Devarim 5785Torah: Deuteronomy 1:1–3:22 | Haftarah: Isaiah 1:1–27 |https://miko284.com/2025/07/31/20-years-later-white-blue-orange-still/

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