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(Yes, that's the title of the whole collection.) It's a wild ride through the aggadah – the stories, the embellishments, the "filling in the blanks" that surrounds the more straigh...
That's the situation Moses found himself in, according to some fascinating threads in Jewish legend. The story goes that even the angels themselves were taken aback. They came to G...
It's not just the parting of the Red Sea, or the dramatic escape. It’s the sheer, focused intensity of it all. And at the heart of that intensity? The ten plagues. But have you eve...
But there's a problem. A big one. Sacrifices, especially the Passover sacrifice, the korban Pesach, can only be eaten within the boundaries of the Holy Land. So, how could they pos...
It’s a question that pops up again and again in Jewish tradition, and one story in particular, about Moses and his father-in-law Jethro, really brings it home. At first, Moses wasn...
We often focus on the big names, the artisans, the leaders. But what about the women? Their story, as told in the Legends of the Jews, is truly remarkable (Ginzberg). Apparently, t...
The princes of the tribes in the story of building the Mishkan (Tabernacle) knew that feeling all too well. According to Ginzberg's retelling in Legends of the Jews, when Moses cal...
We often picture a triumphant march, but the reality, according to Jewish tradition, was far more complicated. It's easy to imagine them yearning for the "good old days" – even tho...
The story goes that when the spies returned from scouting the land of Canaan – what we know today as Palestine/Israel – they cooked up a scheme to discourage the Israelites from ev...
