The third portion of Deuteronomy! We have further admonitions to obey the Law; a focus on the events surrounding the golden calf, Moses shattering and remaking the tablets, and otherwise asking G-d to withhold from destroying the Israelites; further discussion of the riches and abundance of Canaan; several reminders that victory and success come at the discretion of G-d and that yall are a bunch of fuckers; that they will dispossess nations greater than themselves if they hold to the commandments; and the verses that are cited whenever mezuzahs come up. We also note that there's a reframing of the wandering in the wilderness for 40 years occurring as sort of productive activity, a sort of trial that helped them.
Deuteronomy is interesting in how it's very clearly phrased [at least in this translation] as a sort of poetic, direct address to the people, but it's also reiterating a lot of previous commands and events, so even the sages have a bit less to say in some places than you may expect.
So let's talk about the commentaries.
We learn that during the 40 years of wandering, that the people's clothes didn't dirty and that their feet didn't swell. As you can imagine, this led to the sages discussing feet, and also how manna maybe didn't cause people to produce sweat, because there's no end of worrying things manna induces physiologically.

Rashi also uses a delightful snail metaphor

During a discussion of foods in the promised land, Ibn Ezra dropped some old timey nutrition facts concerning blood and honey.

Ibn Ezra describes a thing which is quick (a fire that devours [quickly])

Moses chews out the Israelites for being so stiff necked and stubborn, which led to some genuinely great lines like "you have continued defiant toward G-d". We also may have devised some related booty shorts and tramp stamps.


We learn from ramban that it's preferable to be a little slutty than to try and cuckold G-d

The tradition of the sages shall triumph.
