Moses, Job, and the Day Death Breaks Every Man's Wings

Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Vaetchanan 6:1

Curated by Arthur·Translated by Maggid (Beta)·

[(Deuteronomy 3:26): "Enough for you! Do not speak of this matter again."] This is what Job said (Job 20:6): "Though his loftiness ascend to the heavens, and his head reach unto the cloud." Concerning whom did this verse speak? It spoke of nothing but the day of death. For even if a man ascends to the heavens and makes himself wings like a bird, once his appointed end to die arrives, his wings are broken and he falls before the angel of death, like an animal before the slaughterer. And so David said (Psalms 146:4): "His spirit departs, he returns to his earth."

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DeathMosesHumility

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