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The Torah tells us about the Ohel Moed, the Tent of Meeting, a portable sanctuary that Moses set up outside the Israelite camp. But according to tradition, it wasn't just the Israe...
But Moses, Moshe Rabbenu, our teacher, wasn't about to give up on them. For forty days and forty nights—that's right, another forty-day stretch in the Bible—from the 18th of Tammuz...
It wasn't just about leading the Israelites out of Egypt. According to the Legends of the Jews, as retold by Louis Ginzberg, Moses harbored three deep desires. First, he yearned fo...
Even MOSES, the great lawgiver himself, wrestled with this. According to Ginzberg's retelling in Legends of the Jews, Moses needed to understand why the righteous weren't always re...
It’s a question as old as time, and one that even Moses, the great lawgiver himself, wrestled with. According to Ginzberg’s retelling in Legends of the Jews, while Moses was up on ...
And it's a question that Moses, our great leader, dared to ask. Even after witnessing incredible miracles, after leading the Israelites out of Egypt, after receiving the Torah itse...
The answer, as often in Jewish tradition, is layered with meaning. : God spoke to Moses face-to-face, more clearly than to any other prophet. Yet, when Moses asks to see God's full...
But Jewish tradition offers a powerful and beautiful answer, rooted in a story about Moses himself. Imagine Moses, standing before God after the devastating sin of the Golden Calf....
The Israelites knew that feeling all too well. Remember the Golden Calf? A colossal screw-up. A moment of collective insanity that threatened to shatter everything. But what happen...
