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It happened to Moses, even after forty years of leading the Israelites through the wilderness. And the consequences, according to tradition, were profound. For four decades, Moses,...
It’s a question that echoes through the ages, especially when we consider the deaths of Moses and Aaron, figures of immense stature in Jewish tradition. Jewish lore paints a pictur...
It’s a daunting enough task already, but what do you do when your efforts seem to make the situation even more dire for your people? That’s exactly the place Moses found himself in...
One that opens up a whole world of understanding about the special role this tribe played. Our story starts in the Book of Numbers, Bamidbar in Hebrew, which literally means "in th...
But Midrash Rabbah, specifically Bamidbar Rabbah 2, reveals a fascinating layer of meaning beneath the surface. "The children of Israel did in accordance with everything that the L...
The book of Bamidbar Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic teachings on the Book of Numbers, sheds light on this very question. We find ourselves at a pivotal moment in the Israelites' ...
It’s easy to imagine grand, sweeping transformations, but sometimes, the most profound miracles are about containing the uncontainable – about fitting more into less. That’s what o...
It opens with a simple question: "And Pharaoh was dreaming" – do not all people dream? What’s so special about his? The answer, according to Rabbi Yoḥanan, is that a king’s dream p...
to a fascinating discussion from Kohelet Rabbah, a collection of rabbinic interpretations of the Book of Ecclesiastes, about the appointment of Aaron as the High Priest. The Rabbis...
