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It tells us what it means to return to the extraordinary range of challenges that simply <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">resume, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as if we could possibly be ready, after massively dislocating events, events that alter the landscape in every possible way. Anyone who has undergone a deep loss or profound change but had to return to life within a dictated period of time knows what this challenge is like. We know that as we move forward, some other vector of experience moves in a different direction, from surface to depth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Chapter 20, we experience too much to manage. \u00a0In Chapter 21, we find ourselves after the death of Miriam, after the complaining that follows that death, after the event of Moses and Aaron gathering the people before a rock. Moses strikes the rock when he has not been instructed to use the staff, and God decrees that neither brother will lead the people into the promised land. It is irreversible, inexplicable, devastating. The children of Israel continue on their journey until God tells Moses that Aaron will die after transferring his priestly garments to his son. Precisely this transmission happens and then Aaron dies and the people mourn thirty days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chapter 20 ends. Both Moses\u2019 siblings are gone, we know that Moses too will die, that he will not enter the land, that we will leave him, too, behind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the narrative continues. It simply continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chapter 21 picks up with journeying, and battle, and more complaining, and more petitioning of God for protection. But in the midst of this slew of events, we read that the children of Israel sing a song praying for water. It is an extremely short song compared to some of the songs we know in the Bible. \u201cRise up, O well, sing to it\/The well the chieftains dug\/ The nobles of the people started\/\u2026 with their own staffs\u201d (21:17-18).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is this song? To my ear, it is the verse in the chapter that registers the \u201cas if\u201d of continuing. This song, this prayer, sings the aftermath of Miriam\u2019s death, and Aaron\u2019s transmission of the priesthood, and Aaron\u2019s death, and the rock and the water, and the staff, always the staff, and the recognition that Moses, too, will be left behind. 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