1. It was his 120th birthday Moses died on Adar 7, 2488 (1273 BCE), the exact same day he was born 120 years earlier. It is very rare for someone to die on their birthday! This shows that Moses completed his life’s mission perfectly, without missing a single day. 2. Moses Spent Five Weeks Delivering His Last Will and Testament On Shevat 1, Moses gathered the Jewish people and began delivering his final words to them. For the next five weeks, he urged them to follow God’s path and reviewed all the mitzvahs they had received at Mount Sinai. His parting words became the Book of Deuteronomy , the fifth and final book of the Torah. 3. Moses Wrote 13 Torah Scrolls Moses was very busy on the day he died! The Talmud tells us that he wrote 13 Torah scrolls that very day—one for each of the 12 tribes and one to be kept in the Ark of the Covenant. According to another tradition, Moses used practical Kabbalah to imbue his quill with miraculous powers. 4. Some say it was a Sabbath According to...
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