parsha bit: V'zot Ha-brachah

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This week we conclude the reading of torah with the death of Moshe. The talmud asks how Moshe could have written the words "Moshe died there". Rabbi Yehudah said that Moshe wrote until this point and Yehoshua wrote the final words. Rabbi Shimon disagreed, saying "can we imagine the scroll of the law being incomplete when Moshe said 'take this book of the law'?" Rather, he says, until this point the Holy One Blessed Be He dictated and Moshe repeated and wrote, and for the final words He dictated and Moshe wrote with tears in his eyes. (Baba Batra 15a)