Deuteronomy דברים
The fifth book of the Torah: Moshe's farewell addresses on the plains of Moav in the last weeks of his life.
Devarim differs from the other books in tone: almost all of it is Moshe speaking in the first person. It is his farewell — thirty-seven days of addresses to a nation he led out of Egypt as children and that now enters the Land without him.
He retells the forty years, sparing neither the people nor himself; repeats the Ten Utterances with small variations; and speaks the Shema, which became the opening of every prayer. Here too are the laws of the king, of war, of courts, of shmita and charity; the commandments of tefillin and mezuzah; the blessing and the curse; and, again and again, the demand to remember.
The book closes with the song Haazinu, the blessing of the tribes and the account of Moshe's death on Mount Nebo.