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Our story begins with messengers. The messengers of Agnias, to be precise, hurrying back from Kittim (often associated with Cyprus or sometimes Rome) with good news. They carry the...
That's exactly where we find Joseph, son of Jacob, in the land of Egypt. What does he do? He makes his brothers swear an oath. But it's not just any oath. It's a promise that when ...
Six hundred thousand families, all on foot. That's already a crowd beyond imagining. But picture each family, not just with mom and dad, but with FIVE children riding horses! It's ...
The text we have before us doesn't shy away from the harsh realities of that moment. As the Egyptians lay dying on the shore, defeated and broken, they were forced to witness the t...
But beneath the surface of the biblical narrative, the aggadah – the Jewish tradition of storytelling and interpretation – reveals a deeper, almost mystical struggle. It wasn't jus...
That’s the kind of pressure the Levites, specifically the sons of Kohath, were under in the desert. Their most sacred duty, as we learn in Legends of the Jews, was transporting the...
It’s a theme that pops up again and again, even in ancient stories. Take Moses, for example. He's tasked with appointing elders and bringing them to the Tabernacle to receive the R...
The Legends of the Jews, that incredible collection of stories and expansions on the biblical narrative compiled by Louis Ginzberg, recounts just such a moment. We find Moses facin...
The Torah doesn't shy away from these thorny issues, and one story in particular, the aftermath of the war with Midian, really makes you think. We often focus on the battles themse...
