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The Talmud (Menachot 29b) offers a fascinating glimpse into just such an encounter. Imagine MOSES, ascending to heaven. He finds God meticulously embellishing the letters of the To...
We find Moses in a rather… argumentative mood. It all starts when Moses witnesses God writing the attribute of "long-suffering" – in Hebrew, erekh apayim – into the Torah. Now, ere...
The aggadah, the storytelling tradition that enriches our understanding of Jewish texts, paints a truly breathtaking picture. According to the Legends of the Jews, as retold by Rab...
The luchot—that's Hebrew for "tablets"—were divine creations themselves, crafted by God's own hand during that mystical twilight time at the end of the first Sabbath. Ginzberg, in ...
Let's talk about the Golden Calf. We all know the story: Moses is up on Mount Sinai getting the Ten Commandments, and the Israelites, impatient and scared, build a golden idol to w...
Even MOSES, the great lawgiver himself, wrestled with this. According to Ginzberg's retelling in Legends of the Jews, Moses needed to understand why the righteous weren't always re...
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...
Jewish legend has a beautiful answer. The story goes that after Moses finished writing the Torah, he wiped his pen on his forehead. Now, this wasn't just any ink. This was heavenly...
