Moses fails to enter Canaan not because his life is too short but because it is a human life." (Kafka) Moses' fundamental sense of himself as 'not a man of words' comes to a poignant consummation in the long speeches he makes to the people before he dies. What is his purpose in these speeches, and particularly in his narrative about his desire to 'cross over to the other side' (of the Jordan)? In memory of Shaindy and Sheldon Rudoff, z"l