Near the end of his life, Moses commanded the people:
“Now write for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites” (Deut. 31:19).
This verse is the source-text for the obligation of each Jew to write a Torah scroll (Sanhedrin 21b). [However, the Shulchan Aruch quotes the opinion of Rabbeinu Asher (the Rosh) that ‘Nowadays it is a mitzvah to write books of the Pentateuch, Mishnah, Talmud, and their commentaries,’ since we no longer study directly from Torah scrolls.]
But why did Moses refer to the Torah as a ’song’? In what way should we relate to the Torah as song?
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