Moses blesses the people as he is about to die.
Centuries earlier, also nearing death, Jacob blesses his own twelve sons.
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One blesses at the end of one’s life.
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Facing death, a man can finally say: This is what I have done with my life.
He can know, definitively, what his life was.
He can know who he was.
And it is at this moment that he blesses others.
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Perhaps you can only bless others if you know who are.
And perhaps the culmination of your learning to know yourself is your blessing others.
If this is the case, then the culmination of your own life is the people around you.
Shabbat shalom and chag sameach, Abe
Section two of this thought (with the exception of that section's final line) is my expansion of a thought of Avivah Zornberg.
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