7 myths
God dug Moses's grave with His own hands and buried him on Mount Nebo. He hid it so well it appears in different places to different observers.
God orders His mightiest angels to fetch the soul of Moses, and one after another they refuse the man worth six hundred thousand.
At the border he will never cross, Moses tells God that Adam broke one command and died, while he broke none. So why must he die too?
Every Torah scroll ends with Moses dying. The Talmud wrestled with who wrote those final words and how Moses could have done it.
On Mount Nebo, the land Moses could not enter opened like a scroll, and he watched Barak, David, and Joshua rise out of its hills.
Moses begged God to let him enter the Land of Israel. When God refused every plea, He attended to Moses in death the way no human being ever could.
From Nebo Moses did not only see geography. The Mekhilta says God showed him Joshua, Barak, Sisera, and the future army of Gog waiting in the hills.
