How Do We Live When We Know We Will Not Personally Finish Everything We Begin?
How can we keep building when the work is larger than one lifetime?
This source-based Torah essay reflects on Moses, unfinished missions, and the painful gap between beginning a task and living to see its completion. Its historical counterfactual chain is homiletic and theological, not empirical causation. The enduring lesson is that a person can be responsible for carrying a mission forward even when others will complete what they began.