Moses asks his last words to land like rain on young grass. After Yom Kippur, seventy students in a Michigan parking lot showed him they did.

Moses looked at a people who'd survived ninety-eight curses and said: you are still standing. The week before Rosh Hashanah, that's enough.

Ki Teitzei packs seventy-four commandments into one parsha. Most of them are tiny. All of them assume you left the house this morning.

Moses said "how" because the people were too alive to carry alone. Jeremiah said "how" because they were gone. Same word. Both true.