Devarim 31: Comings and Goings

YINR 929: Tanach Yomi · May 13, 2026 · 3m

The final message is nigh. Moshe begins the introduction tohis song and blessings: “I am now one hundred and twenty years old, I can notgo out and come in.”

בֶּן־מֵאָהוְעֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה אָנֹכִי הַיּוֹםלֹא־אוּכַל עוֹד לָצֵאת וְלָבוֹא

(Deuteronomy 31:2)

The Hebrew “latzeit v’lavo” literally means go out and comein. Ostensibly, Moshe is saying that he is 120 years old and cannot move aroundanymore. This makes sense for him to say right before he dies. However, Rashidoes not like the literal translation. How could Moshe be frail if in a fewchapters the Torah says “His eye was not dim nor his…