V'Zot HaBerachah

Wesot Habracha (Hebrew וזאת הברכה, "And this is the blessing " - supplement: Moses ) is a reading section ( Parasha or Sidra ) of the Torah, and includes the text Deuteronomy / Devarim 33.1 to 34.12.

It is the Sidra of the Simchat Torah celebration.

Gist

• Moses blesses before his death the individual tribes except the tribe of Simeon.
• God lets him see the whole country.
• Moses dies aged 120 years.
• God himself buries him, nobody knows of Moses grave.
• Israel mourns 30 days to Moses.
• Israel obeyed Joshua and executes all commands that gave Moses God.
• Completion of the Pentateuch: " a prophet is never again in Israel like Moses occurred. "

Haftorah

The corresponding Haftorah is Jos 1:1-18.