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The story of Job, known in Hebrew as Iyov, gives us a lot to think about. We know Job as the epitome of piety and righteousness, a man blessed by God. But according to the legends,...
That’s the kind of space Job inhabits in the Book of Job, and it’s a space that echoes throughout Jewish tradition. In Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews, we find a poignant continuati...
After the boils, the loss of his family, the relentless questioning... what then? Well, the story doesn't end with him sitting in ashes. According to Legends of the Jews, Job event...
Pharaoh, you see, wasn't just a generic bad guy. According to tradition, he had a dream. A rather unsettling one. In this dream, all of Egypt was balanced on scales, and a single, ...
to the story of Jochebed and Miriam, and the desperate measures they took to save the infant who would become Moses. Imagine the scene. Pharaoh’s decree hangs heavy in the air: all...
Pharaoh's daughter, a pivotal figure in the Moses narrative, wasn't just a passive observer. She took matters into her own hands. The text tells us that she reached out for the ark...
We often think of it as a commandment straight from Mount Sinai, a divine decree etched in stone. And it is. But the story, as it often does in Jewish tradition, has layers and nua...
Here's Moses, destined to lead the Israelites out of slavery, to receive the Torah – the first five books of the Hebrew Bible – at Mount Sinai. Yet, according to tradition, he wasn...
According to Legends of the Jews, Jethro, Zipporah's father, gave Moses considerable wealth and his daughter's hand in marriage. But there was a condition. Jethro, a Midianite prie...
