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The Torah tells us that Pharaoh rose in the night, after the plague of the firstborn. But the Legends of the Jews, drawing on various midrashic sources, paints an even more vivid p...
Jewish mysticism grapples with this feeling, this sense of lack, in the concept of the Shekhinah, the Divine Presence. And one passage in the Tikkunei Zohar, specifically Tikkun 39...
The story of Joseph, as retold in Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews, opens with just that kind of primal animosity. Imagine the scene: Joseph, the favored son, approaches his brothers...
That feeling, that sense of insignificance, is something the Israelites must have grappled with constantly in ancient Egypt. Imagine them, a people struggling under the yoke of Pha...
Sometimes, leadership isn't about grand pronouncements, but about personal example. And that's exactly what we see in this story about Amram, the father of Moses. Things weren't ea...
We all know the broad strokes – God freeing the Israelites from slavery, Pharaoh stubbornly refusing to let them go, and each plague serving as a divine warning. But what about the...
We know the story: the final plague, the death of the firstborn, the Israelites’ dramatic escape. But have you ever stopped to consider the fear, the chaos, the sheer desperation o...
The story of the Exodus, the Israelite's escape from Egypt, is one of the most powerful narratives in Jewish tradition. We all know the broad strokes: slavery, Pharaoh, plagues, th...
It’s a beautiful custom, wishing them the qualities we admire in these two brothers. But there's something even more interesting hidden within that blessing, something that goes ba...
