(Photo: Getty/iStock)Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on the significance of the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32. On the Shabbat between Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and Succot (Tabernacles) we read the Song of Moses, known as Haazinu (Give ear) Deuteronomy 32. Moses calls on heaven and earth to bear witness to the calamities which will befall Israel if she sins. Because Moses knows he is about to die and wants witnesses who will outlive both him and future generations. These themes are ‘all the words of this Song’ which Moses spoke to the people ‘he and Joshua ben Nun’ (v 44), the new leader who was to assume Moses’ mantle and guide the people into the Promised Land.