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In Sifrei Devarim, we find this little gem: "Much to you dwelling in this mountain." It sounds straightforward. Like a simple acknowledgement of gratitude. But, as always, there’s ...
The Book of Judith grapples with this very feeling. And in chapter 8, we find Judith, a courageous and deeply faithful widow, challenging the elders of her besieged city, Bethulia....
That’s the feeling that practically leaps off the page in the Book of Judith after the tyrant Holofernes is defeated. So, what happens after Judith, this incredible woman, saves he...
And the Lord spake with Mosheh, after that the two sons of Aharon the high priest had died (or, the priests the two elder sons of Aharon had died) at the time of their offering ext...
And Miriam and Aharon spake against Mosheh words that were not becoming with respect to the Kushaitha whom the Kushaee had caused Mosheh to take when he had fled from Pharoh, but w...
AND this is the order of the Benedictions wherewith Mosheh the Prophet blessed the children of Israel before he died. And he said: The Lord was revealed at Sinai to give the law un...
Chapter 9 They [the Israelites]--the entire congregation--came to the wilderness of Tzin in the first month, and the nation settled there, and Miriam died there and was buried ther...
And I will make my covenant between Me and thee (Gen. 17:2). Scripture says elsewhere in allusion to this verse: The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him; and His covenant...
And he saw the place from afar off (Gen. 22:4). Abraham said to Isaac: “Do you see what I see?” “I behold a glorious mountain encircled by a cloud,” he replied. Then he asked his y...
