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Moses knew something profound. He understood that, more than anything else, God valued mercy. Remember the story of the Golden Calf? When the Israelites went completely astray, Mos...
Take Aaron, for instance, Moses' brother. We know Moses as the lawgiver, the one who spoke to God face-to-face. But Aaron... well, the people loved Aaron. And that’s saying somethi...
Sometimes the pieces don’t quite fit at first glance. Take, for instance, the tribe of Levi. In the Book of Numbers – Bamidbar in Hebrew – we find two seemingly opposing instructio...
The Torah, in its infinite wisdom, touches upon this very feeling when describing the Levites. We find in Numbers 3:46, "All the counted, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Is...
And believe it or not, our ancient texts have something profound to say about it. The Bamidbar Rabbah, a collection of Midrashic teachings on the Book of Numbers, dives deep into t...
The sages of the Talmud grappled with this very emotion, particularly in the context of marriage and fidelity. And surprisingly, the Torah has a lot to say about it. to an intrigui...
We find ourselves in Bamidbar Rabbah 12, a section of the Midrash Rabbah, a compilation of rabbinic teachings on the books of the Torah. The text opens with a seemingly simple stat...
But did they really get away with it? The Book of Devarim — Deuteronomy — opens with the phrase, "These are the words that Moses spoke…" And the Midrash, specifically Devarim Rabba...
But Ecclesiastes 4:3 dances with it: "Better than both of them is one who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil actions that are done under the sun." Now, Kohelet Rabbah, a c...
