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Rabbi Eli Garfinkel
Rabbi Eli Garfinkel
September 3, 2026

Moses tells the nation that he is now 120 years old and can no longer be active as their leader. (The literal translation is “I cannot go and come.”) Rashi gives us the standard rabbinic interpretations of this expression, namely that the Moses was not weak from old age or senility.

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