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At the end of the parashah God tells Moshe, "Go up to ... Mount Nevo ... and behold the land of Cana'an ... for you shall .see the land from afar, but you shall not come there." Rashi says that God afforded Moshe this opportunity, because He knew how dear the Land was to him.
According to the Yalkut Shim'oni, when asked by the people why God did not let him enter the land, Moshe humbly answered (32:4), "He is the Rock, His actions are perfect, for all His Ways are just," adding that he had brought it on himself (through the sin of Mei Merivah).
The Midrash states, however, that God really wanted Moshe: 1) to be buried (34:6) "opposite the House of Pe'or," to atone for the people's sin there, and thus enable .the living of that generation to enter the land; and 2) to (33:21) "come at the head of the people" - to lead those who had died in the desert into the land at the time of the Resurrection, may it occur speedily, in our lifetime!
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