Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Exodus 16:35 adds a detail that answers a question most readers do not think to ask: when exactly did the manna stop falling?
The Targum says: And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land: manna did they eat forty days after his death, until they had passed the Jordena, and entered upon the borders of the land of Kenaan.
Two numbers, not one. Forty years of manna in total. And within that, forty days after Moses's death. The Targum is resolving a chronological puzzle. The Torah says Israel ate manna for forty years. But Moses died just before the entry into the land. How do the numbers work?
The Targumist's answer, drawn from rabbinic tradition (see Seder Olam Rabbah, compiled c. 160 CE), is this: the manna that had been falling daily for the entire wilderness period continued to fall for forty days after Moses died. Those last forty days were a gift of dignity. The people were allowed to eat from the same miraculous bread that had sustained their leader, as they mourned him and prepared to cross the Jordan without him.
The Maggid finds this deeply tender. The Holy One did not cut off the manna the moment Moses died. The miracle of the wilderness continued a little longer than its main character. The bread stayed until the people had eaten enough to face the land without him.
Takeaway: providence sometimes lingers. After a great loss, the blessings that sustained the previous era often continue for a small, strictly measured period, long enough for the bereaved to find their footing. The manna stopped only when the new bread, the grain of the land, was ready to take its place.