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The Torah tells us in Numbers 13 that they departed from Kadesh-Barnea. But where did they go first? The south of Palestine, the least impressive part. Now, why would Moses do that...
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 Israelites certainly did. And their story, as told in the Legends of the Jews, offers a fascinating, and sometimes unsettling, glimpse into divine justice and, ultimately, rede...
But like so many things in Jewish tradition, there's a hidden blessing nestled within the hardship. According to Legends of the Jews, that epic collection of stories compiled by Lo...
That's the situation Korah and his followers found themselves in, and boy, were they vocal about it! Fueled by fiery rhetoric, Korah's band of rebels confronted Moses and Aaron, th...
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...
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...
