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ARSHAS VAYEILECH — YOM KIPPUR
“And Hashem said to Moshe: Behold your days are approaching to die.” (Devarim 31:14)
The Midrash Tanchuma (V’zos Habrachah) quotes Rabi Shimon bar Nachman who asks on this pasuk: Do days die?
He answers that despite the fact that tzaddikim die and their days disappear from the world they themselves continue to exist.
It says in Iyov (12: 10): “In His hand is the soul of every living thing.” Are the souls of the living in His hand and not the souls of the dead?
