About halfway through Parashat Nitzavim, Moshe informs Bnei Yisrael that they will eventually repent. On the heels of his prediction that God will become so angry with Bnei Yisrael that he will bring upon them “all the curses written in this Torah” (Devarim 29:26), Moshe teaches:
At the end of their forty year journey through the desert, the Children of Israel finally arrived at the last stop. The final verse of Parashat Chukat informs us that the people encamped on the Plains of Moav, just on the other side of the Jordan River from the city of Jericho (21:35). While their wanderings have ended and the stage has been set for entering into the land, much will yet occur before the crossing of the Jordan.
