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We all know the story: Moses is up on Mount Sinai, receiving the Torah, and the Israelites, impatient and doubting, melt down their gold and fashion a false idol. Moses descends, s...
It wasn't just about leading the Israelites out of Egypt. According to the Legends of the Jews, as retold by Louis Ginzberg, Moses harbored three deep desires. First, he yearned fo...
The answer, as often in Jewish tradition, is layered with meaning. : God spoke to Moses face-to-face, more clearly than to any other prophet. Yet, when Moses asks to see God's full...
But Jewish tradition offers a powerful and beautiful answer, rooted in a story about Moses himself. Imagine Moses, standing before God after the devastating sin of the Golden Calf....
The Israelites knew that feeling all too well. Remember the Golden Calf? A colossal screw-up. A moment of collective insanity that threatened to shatter everything. But what happen...
According to the legends, those forty days and nights were a whirlwind education. Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews tells us that Moses received it all up there: not just the Torah – ...
It's a monumental task. Well, the angels apparently had some thoughts. The story goes that they were a little… skeptical. As we find in Legends of the Jews, a monumental compilatio...
They stood at Sinai, heard the very voice of God thundering the Ten Commandments, including the absolute prohibition against idolatry… and then, a mere forty days later, they're pa...
The story of Bezalel, the architect of the Mishkan, the Tabernacle, gives us a glimpse. It's a fascinating tale. Even though God Himself knew that Bezalel was absolutely the right ...
