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The offerings each tribe brought to the Mishkan, the Tabernacle, give us some fascinating clues. Take the tribe of Gad, for instance. Remember Simeon, sword in hand, battling to de...
And it plays out in a beautiful way in the story of Moses. According to Ginzberg’s retelling in Legends of the Jews, Moses, ever humble, believed his work was done once the Mishkan...
It's not just random. There's often a deeper meaning, a connection, a story waiting to be uncovered. to one of those pairings and see what we can find. Let's start with the tribe o...
We see hints of it in the way Moses was commanded to count the Levites. : for all the other tribes, only men fit for war, twenty years old and up, were numbered. But with Levi? Eve...
That’s the dark side of desire, and it’s a theme that echoes through Jewish tradition. Today, we’re diving into a story from Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, a retelling of a...
He wasn't a Canaanite, mind you, those ancient inhabitants of the land of Israel. But, like some of them, Korah serves as a cautionary tale: immense wealth, squandered by pride. Th...
Like Moses, for instance. He led the Israelites out of Egypt, received the Torah, and yet, he never set foot in the Promised Land. Why? We often point to the incident at Kadesh, wh...
We all know the story: the Israelites, wandering in the desert, grumbling (as they were wont to do!). And as a result, God sends serpents amongst them (Numbers 21:4-9). But here's ...
The ancient Israelites did something similar with manna, that miraculous food from heaven. As the story goes, they sang a song not to the manna, but to the well that accompanied th...
