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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...
The ancient stories certainly resonate with that feeling. Today, we’re diving into a powerful moment in the relationship between God and the Israelites after the Exodus, a moment f...
The story of Korah's rebellion, found in the Book of Numbers, is one of the most dramatic and unsettling in the Torah, and the defiant words of Dathan and Abiram, two key figures i...
It’s easy to imagine him as this larger-than-life figure, divinely guided, but sometimes he acted with remarkable prudence, almost bordering on… politeness. We find an example of t...
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...
