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The story goes that when the spies returned from scouting the land of Canaan – what we know today as Palestine/Israel – they cooked up a scheme to discourage the Israelites from ev...
We're diving into a moment of profound disillusionment and rebellion in the Israelite camp, right after the spies return from scouting the land of Canaan. The people, as Ginzberg r...
It’s a question that echoes through the ages, particularly when we grapple with concepts like divine justice and mercy. to a fascinating passage from Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews...
He's a bit of a background character, isn't he? One of David's many sons. But according to the Legends of the Jews, compiled by Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, there's so much more to his st...
The Babylonians sacked the city, but did they get everything? Well, some say that not all the sacred objects fell into enemy hands. The prophet Jeremiah, according to tradition, ma...
Just like Daniel before him, Zerubbabel was said to be privy to divine secrets, granted knowledge of what was to come. Imagine knowing the future! The archangel Metatron, a powerfu...
The scene is set in Numbers 25:6: “Behold, a man from the children of Israel came and brought near to his brethren the Midyanite woman, before the eyes of Moses, and before the eye...
Take this story from Bereshit Rabbah 39, a midrash – that is, an interpretive commentary – on the Book of Genesis. Rabbi Berekhya, quoting Rabbi Neḥemya, tells us of a king traveli...
The ancient rabbis grappled with this feeling too – the feeling of connection, or disconnection, from the Divine. They asked: What does it mean to say God is near? And how can we k...
