We Will Perform and Obey at Sinai's Foot

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on ExodusThe 613 Commandments Written on the Tablets of SinaiThe plain Hebrew of (Exodus 24:12) reads simply that God promised Moses the tablets of stone, the Torah, and the commandment. The Targum Pseudo-Jonathan cannot

Mekhilta DeRabbi Shimon Ben YochaiMoses Sets the Words Before the Elders of the PeopleWhen God finished speaking, Moses wasted no motion. He did not go home, and he did not let any other business pull him aside. He came straight back and called t

Hebraic Literature (1901)Famine, Plenty, and the Wise Ruler Appointed by HeavenThe Rabbis teach that three things come into the world directly from the hand of the Holy One, never secondhand. Famine. Plenty. And a wise ruler. For famine, S

Hebraic Literature (1901)Why Wearing Tefillin Counts as Studying Torah Day and NightThe people of Israel once came before God with a complaint that only a working people could make. Rabbi Eliezer preserved their words: "We are anxious to be occ

Hebraic Literature (1901)The Eighty Disciples of Hillel and the Least of ThemThe venerable Hillel had eighty disciples. That number is not a boast but a ledger. The rabbis kept careful count. Thirty of those eighty, they said, were worth

The Exempla of the Rabbis (1924)Why Even the Children Come to the SynagogueRabbi Joshua came to the academy one afternoon and asked the students what Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah had taught that morning. The young man had been appointed h

We Will Perform and Obey at Sinai's Foot

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