There was once a Chassid who proudly told his Rebbe that he had learned the entire Shas. The Rebbe, of course, complimented him, but asked him what did he learn from the Shas.
Today, Simchat Torah, we have finished the entire Torah, so I would like to focus on it's last few verses that talk about the greatness of Moshe Rabbeinu. These verses are divided into three parts:
The first part teaches us that Moshe Rabbeinu was a prophet that spoke to HaShem face to face. Moshe was familiar with G-d, and he was able to speak with him whenever he wished. The Torah is also warning us not to appoint false prophets in the future by showing us how a real prophet.
The second statement tells us that Moshe was involved with all the great miracles in human history. There are not just nice stories, but they are incidents that dramatically affected our history. Some of them were not in front of Am Yisrael, but rather other nations.
But the very last statement, the statement that we close the entire Torah with is very puzzling. It says that by all the strong hand and awesome power that Moshe performed in front of Am Yisrael.
The Gemara on this pasuk doesn't want to explain it the way it is written, as the way it is written, it sounds like Moshe Rabbeinu forced Am Yisrael and caused them to fear. Therefore, the conclusion of the Gemara is that the verse is referring to the incident of the smashing of the two tablets that were given to Moshe Rabbeinu by G-d which Moshe smashed after the terrible sin of the golden calf. This raises a big question: Out of all the amazing things that took place in Egypt and the desert throughout 40 years, Is this really the incident that the Torah wants to conclude on?
It's seems that the Torah wants to teach us a great lesson: that we should not just read the Torah, rather learn the Torah. Did we just read it as a nice story or a collection of interesting laws, or did it change us for the good and make us better people? So we conclude the Torah with the story of the two tablets, where just 40 days before they received the Torah, and they said נעשה ונשמע and accepted upon themselves not to bow down to idols. The immediate response of Moshe after the Golden Calf is that if this is the case, then there is no point in the Torah.
If the Torah is not changing you, there is no point of having another book on your bookshelf.
Chag Sameach,
Rabbi Tal