My thoughts for Chukkat 5781 for Yeshivat Maharat’s Divrei Torah:
Parashat Chukat includes one of the Torah’s great mysteries: Moshe Rabbenu is told he will
not live to lead Bnei Yisrael across the Yarden and into Eretz Yisrael on account of his
transgression at the (second) striking of the rock. But what was Moshe’s transgression
exactly? What could have caused a person as profoundly righteous and prophetic as
Moshe to face such a harsh consequence?
Read the whole piece here (PDF).
Image: James Tissot, Moses Strikes the Rock, gouache on board, c.1896 – c.1902
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