As Moshe addresses the people of Israel at the opening of the book of D’varim, he recounts for the people all events since their arrival at the mountain of the L-rd. He detailed each incident of the L-rd’s faithfulness and Israel’s rebellion.
Was Moshe doing this to put a guilt trip on the people of G-d? If not, what was his purpose, because it certainly wasn’t to earn some golf equipment for his retirement.
No, what we must remember here is that Moshe is by now an old man. He knows his time to return to Adonai is near, and he desperately wants the people to thrive in obedience to Adonai once he is no longer there to guide them.
I believe with this message, guilt was not the goal. It was a final for of encouragement, tinged with a note of warning, to finally live up to what Adonai wanted from them all along: being an obedient people who act when the L-rd speaks.
What a world it would be if we all merely listened and obeyed, with no theological filters.