“And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.”
The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the period of mourning for Moses was ended — communal grief ('va-yivku... ben Yisrael et Moshe b'arvot Moav'): thirty-day mourning ('arb'im yamim'). Woe is finite; transition is prepared.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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