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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...
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...
Jewish tradition certainly understands that feeling. Let's talk about the deaths of three towering figures in the Torah: Miriam, Aaron, and Moses. You might think that because they...
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...
Jewish tradition is full of stories exploring the pitfalls of overconfidence, particularly when it comes to knowledge of Torah. And one such story involves King David, a figure kno...
You see, after leading the Israelites through the desert for forty long years, Moses was denied entry into the land flowing with milk and honey. Harsh. And here’s the really intere...
Their task? It was not slight. In fact, according to Legends of the Jews, it was comparable to Joshua's entire conquest of Canaan! Now, you might remember Joshua. He took on the la...
But the tradition often reminds us that even the best lineages can have some…interesting…twists and turns. Let's talk about Moses, yes THAT Moses, and a rather peculiar story about...
The story revolves around a famine in Israel, a famine attributed to King Saul's transgression against the Gibeonites. You see, long ago, Joshua had made a pact with the Gibeonites...
