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The Legends of the Jews by Ginzberg recounts this scene, drawing from various rabbinic sources. Zebulon, at the ripe old age of 114 – two years after Joseph's death – calls his son...
There was a transition, a gradual dimming of the light. It’s almost like the Egyptians were waiting for something… or someone. Ginzberg tells us that as long as the sons of Jacob w...
According to Legends of the Jews, as retold by Ginzberg, it was the one hundred and thirtieth year after the Israelites arrived in Egypt. Pharaoh, uneasy in his power, had a distur...
We know him as the ultimate liberator, the lawgiver, the one who spoke to God face to face. But there's a fascinating story, tucked away in Jewish legend, about Moses the King of E...
According to Ginzberg's retelling in Legends of the Jews, Moses encountered seven maidens at a well. One of them, Zipporah, caught his eye with her modesty. He proposed marriage, b...
A darkness, he called it. And it led him on a journey, one that would ultimately illuminate the most mystical and enigmatic of Jewish texts: the Zohar. But let's be honest, the Zoh...
You're not alone. Jewish tradition, especially Kabbalah, is deeply interested in the idea of inner and outer, of the pnim (internal) and chitzon (external) – and it applies this co...
The ancient mystical text, Heikhalot Rabbati, which translates roughly to "The Greater Palaces," gives us a peek behind the curtain, into the celestial realms surrounding God's thr...
In it, we find a powerful scene, a moment of intense advocacy before the very throne of God. Imagine this: A voice rising, filled with both awe and a desperate plea. "King fearful,...
