Originally published on Seventy Faces of Torah, and Patheos
What does it mean to speak across a river we will never cross?
In this reflection for Seventy Faces of Torah, I explore Moses’s final words in parashat Devarim as a powerful metaphor for leadership, memory, and hope. Amid ancient sorrow and contemporary uncertainty, Moses offers us a fragile, shimmering bridge made of words—an invitation to shape grief into connection, to trust that our voices can carry across divides, and to find courage in the creative act of storytelling.
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A Bridge Made of Words
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