This Dvar Torah has been anonymously sponsored in the zchus for a refuah shlaimah for Rochel Bina Bat Yehudis Yetta, Mazal Bat Amalia Maly, Avraham Ben Chana, Aharon Halevi Ben Basya Kaylah, Tzvi Chaim ben Malka, Yisrael Yaakov Ben Yehudis Chaya Goldah, Leora Rachel Bas Chaya Raizel
הַֽאֲזִ֥ינוּ הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וַֽאֲדַבֵּ֑רָה וְתִשְׁמַ֥ע הָאָ֖רֶץ אִמְרֵי־פִֽי: "Listen, O heavens, and I will speak! And let the earth hear the words of my mouth!" (Devarim 32:1) If you were a leader, tasked by God with delivering one final message, what would you say and how would you say it? Shiras Haazinu is Moshe Rabbeinu's last address to Klal Yisrael. He sang it as a duet with his protégé and successor, Yehoshua Bin Nun as the passuk (32:44) says, "And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song into the ears of the people he and Hoshea the son of Nun." The Torah is many things but until that day it had never been a song. The Torah records songs that had been sung before but never had the Torah itself been sung. Why did Moshe compose Shiras Haazinu on his dying day? In truth, it was God's command to Moshe that he sing to Klal Yisrael. The passuk in last week's parsha Parshas Vayelech (31:19) says: וְעַתָּ֗ה כִּתְב֤וּ לָכֶם֙ אֶת־הַשִּׁירָ֣ה הַזֹּ֔את וְלַמְּדָ֥הּ אֶת־בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל שִׂימָ֣הּ בְּפִיהֶ֑ם לְמַ֨עַן תִּֽהְיֶה־לִּ֜י הַשִּׁירָ֥ה הַזֹּ֛את לְעֵ֖ד בִּבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל " And now, write for yourselves this song, and teach it to the Children of Israel. Place it into their mouths, i
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