7,914 related texts · Page 822 of 880
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...
He was dealing with a situation far beyond a simple disagreement. Two men, unnamed in this particular telling, had committed some transgression serious enough to warrant a confront...
Reached the absolute limit of what you can do to help someone, and they just... won't listen? Well, Moses knew that feeling. And the story of Korach's rebellion really brings it ho...
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...
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...
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...
That's the situation Moses faced after the death of his sister, Miriam. The grief was immense. The text tells us that Miriam's death plunged everyone into mourning. Moses and Aaron...
to a story from Legends of the Jews by Ginzberg that really brings this home. The Israelites, thirsty and weary, gathered around Moses, desperate for water. Moses, understandably, ...
That’s the kind of experience the Israelites faced after the death of Aaron, the High Priest, according to Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews. Imagine this: Moses and Eleazar return fr...
