For all of his charisma as a leader, his skills as a diplomat, his savvy as a politician, Moses was not the sort for whom making speeches ever came easily. Rhetoric simply wasn't included on his resume, public speaking never being one of his fortes. And of course, back at Sinai before this improbable pilgrimage began, he had admitted as much to Yahweh: "O my Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor now that you have spoken to your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue" (Exodus 4:10). The Almighty, however, assured Moses that he would be provided with words, which may be the reason he rarely seemed to be at a loss for them any time thereafter. Indeed, his final address to the Israelites, from which our scripture lesson is taken, rambles on for some 30 chapters…