Endnote 8 – In Death as in Life

Anson Laytner (in Arguing With God [Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1990], p. 66) claims that the midrashim about Moses’ death served the didactic purpose of allaying the general anxiety over death: “The dialogue serves to instruct about the rabbinic concept of the world to come and its place and role in the system of divine justice.”