An Out of Body Experience - V'Zot HaBeracha

On Simchat Torah we read the very spare account of the Death of Moses (Deut. 34:5). At the beginning of the Chapter, The Holy One shows Moses the Promised land: north from Jerico to Gilead, east of the Jordan River, and even farther north to the territory of Dan. Moses sees southward to Jerusalem and continuing south, all the way to the Negev in the very south of Israel, and all the way west to the Mediterranean Sea. The sages point out that this is a physical impossibility. No one on earth, even on a mountaintop, could possibly see all that standing in one place. I suggest that this is a description of an out-of-body experience, one in which Moses traveled outside his physical body to see the entire land. Then in verse 5, the Torah tells us that "Moses died there," "by the mouth of God." Rabbis have suggested he died by a Divine Kiss. Perhaps he never re-entered his body, and became wholly that non-physical energy which we experience on earth as Soul. He left the physical and never returned to that incarnation, easily, it seems, and hopefully, with great joy, having seen what he journeyed to see for forty years, fulfilled and blessed.