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He is said to have died <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">al pi hashem<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The <em>peshat<\/em> or contextual meaning of that idiomatic expression is \u201c<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at the command of the Lord<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d Quite simply, Moses died because God commanded it. Rashi brought out a more midrashic interpretation by focusing on the literal translation of this phrase\u05d9. Moses died <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the mouth of the Lord<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0His last breath was drawn while being gently kissed by a loving God. It was a peaceful transition from life to death. Moses died <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">b\u2019shalom<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">b\u2019shlaymut<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The idea of death coming gently with a kiss even found its way into modern Hebrew. <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mitat neshikah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>(\"death by kiss\")\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">refers to a person that died a sudden and painless death at a ripe old age. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, not everyone can experience death as a <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mitat neshikah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Some of us will live long full lives while others will die much too young. Some of us will die swiftly and with minimal pain. Others will languish, and death will come as a welcomed release from suffering. We cannot know how we will die. Death comes for everyone and we are powerless to stop it. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the way we live our lives until that final moment is up to us. We can spend our time being angry and resentful about the misfortunes of our lives. All too often, people make that choice. There is another option. It is one that leads to <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shalom<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shlaymut<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moses\u2019 final moments were peaceful because he chose to stop fighting God\u2019s judgement. \u00a0He had to let go of his dream to lead the people into the Promised Land. Of course accepting that was not easy. 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The Thirteen Principles of Faith, composed during the Middle Ages and traditionally recited every day after morning prayers, puts it as follows:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<ol start=\"7\">\r\n\t<li><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I believe with perfect faith that the prophecy of Moses is absolutely true. He was the chief of all prophets, both before and after him.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The compiler of the Principles was another Moses \u2013 the philosopher and halakhist, Moses Maimonides. 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Rashi oddly identifies that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">awesome power<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wielded by Moses in front of the entire nation of Israel with his breaking of the Tablets at Sinai. As Rashi states, Moses \u201cdecided on his own to break the tablets publicly. God acquiesced to his will, offering him congratulations (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">yishar kochacha<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) on breaking them.\u201d Rabbinically the Torah\u2019s ending picks up on its patent sense of human aptitude but empowering it to the utmost extent of overcoming even God, of persuading God to defer to the human perspective. 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Shockingly to many, yet soberly, Maimonides discourages frequenting cemeteries and halachically rules in his legal code, the Mishneh Torah, against the erection of monuments on the graves of the righteous (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tzadikim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), \u201cfor their words are their memorials.\u201d (Laws of Mourning 4:4) As Moses\u2019 life and death illustrate, Judaism must never lapse into a cult of the dead but must be a celebration of life and thought. 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The Torah struggles to explain why. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whatever the explanation for God\u2019s decision, Moses tries\u2014unsuccessfully\u2014to persuade God to reverse it. In the beginning of Deuteronomy, Moses implores God, \u201cLet me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side of the Jordan\u201d (3:25), but as the end of the book makes clear, God only accedes to part of his request: \u201cThis is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, \u2018I will assign it to your offspring.\u2019 I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you shall not cross there\u201d (34:4). Moses can look, but he cannot go.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lesson of Moses\u2019 death is both tragic and redemptive. When we dedicate our lives to causes greater than ourselves, we may accomplish a great deal, but we very rarely live to see our projects completed. Much of what we work towards will come to fruition\u2014if at all\u2014only after we die. To live covenantally is to embrace that fact and to hope that others will come along and pick up where left off\u2014and that if need be, they will correct us where we went wrong.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christian theologian Dorothee Soelle presents a stunning image shared with her by a friend and fellow activist: \u201cThe people who worked to build the cathedrals in the Middle Ages never saw them completed. It took two hundred years and more to build them. Some stone- cutter somewhere sculpted a beautiful rose; it was his life\u2019s work, and it was all he ever saw. But he never entered into the completed cathedral. But one day, the cathedral was really there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, in the edifice of Judaism, Moses obviously did much more than sculpt a rose; he laid the foundation for the entirety of Jewish tradition. 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