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He was dealing with a situation far beyond a simple disagreement. Two men, unnamed in this particular telling, had committed some transgression serious enough to warrant a confront...
That's the story we're about to explore. After all those years wandering in the desert, the Israelites, led by Moses, were finally approaching the land promised to them by God. The...
We often picture a triumphant march towards the Promised Land, but the reality, according to our sages, was far more complex, fraught with fear and even internal conflict. The Lege...
The Israelites, fresh from the Exodus, knew that feeling all too well. And in Deuteronomy, Moses doesn’t pull any punches reminding them of it. He lays it all out, a litany of miss...
Sometimes, it's not who you expect. In the story of the Israelites wandering in the desert, fresh from their Exodus from Egypt, we often focus on the big figures: Moses, Aaron, the...
We all know the story: Moses, the great leader, the lawgiver, the man who spoke to God face-to-face. He led the Israelites through the desert for forty long years. But now, at the ...
He pleaded with God, a conversation recorded in Legends of the Jews and drawn from various Midrashic sources, begging for just a little longer to guide his people. Moses argued, "W...
According to Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews, Moses, in his final blessings, had some pretty powerful things to say about the Levites. He specifically calls out Aaron, prince of the...
It’s a story of sin, substitution, and…redemption. Originally, get this, the b’chorim—the firstborn sons—held a special spiritual role. They were designated to perform sacred servi...
