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In our Chapter, Moses makes a surprising promise to the assembled Israelites: \u201cThe Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet from among your own people, like myself; him you shall heed\u2026\u201d<\/span> (18:15). This clearly contradicts the end of Deuteronomy: \u201cNever again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses\u2014whom the Lord singled out, face to face\u2026\u201d (34:10). Nevertheless, throughout subsequent Israelite and Jewish history there were, and still are, those who were seen as comparable to Moses or were even considered a \u201csecond Moses\u201d (or \u201cMoses Redivivus\u201d, Moses come back to life). <\/span><\/p>\n

The Midrash confronts this seeming contradiction and proposes one possible candidate (Pesiqta de-Rav Kahana\u2019 \u201cDivrey Yeremiyahu\u201d 13:6): \u201cI will raise up a prophet for them from among their own people, like yourself\u201d (18:18). But isn\u2019t it written: \u201cNever again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses\u201d?! And Moses! You say that there will be a prophet \u201clike you\u201d!? But this means that there will be a prophet like Moses in rebuking and reproaching Israel. For, what was said of Moses was said of Jeremiah. Moses prophesied forty years, and so did Jeremiah [from the thirteenth year of Josiah, king of Judah (626 BCE), until after the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in 587 BCE]. Both prophesied about Judah and Yisrael. Both were opposed by their own tribe (see for example Numbers Chapter 16 and Jeremiah 11:21). Moses was cast into the Nile and Jeremiah was thrown into a pit (see Jeremiah 38:6). Moses was saved by a maiden (Pharaoh\u2019s daughter, see Exodus 2:10) and Jeremiah was saved by a slave (see Jeremiah 38:7-13). Moses spoke words of rebuke (Deuteronomy 28:20), and Jeremiah likewise delivered words of rebuke (Jeremiah ch. 7). Moreover, the words of Moses and Jeremiah begin in a similar way: \u201cThese are the words that Moses addressed to all Israel\u2026\u201d (Deuteronomy 1:1) and Jeremiah\u2019s prophecies begin: \u201cThe words of Jeremiah\u2026\u201d (Jeremiah 1:1). <\/span><\/p>\n

Modern biblical research has also noted the close connection between Moses and Jeremiah. In later Jewish tradition, some of those who were named Moses, or who assumed his name, were thought to be his equal. Most famously the expression \u201cFrom Moses to Moses no one has arisen like Moses\u201d was applied to Moses Maimonides (Rambam). The Talmud (Sotah 13b) goes further and asserts tersely that Moses did not actually die, but rose to heaven, where he \u201cstands and serves above\u201d. Indeed, according to some traditions, Moses will serve as a harbinger of the Messiah, leading the Generation of the Desert to the Promised Land and may even return as the Messiah himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whoever may be the \u201cprophet like Moses\u201d, mentioned in our Chapter — May he come speedily in our day!<\/span><\/p>\n

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