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And sometimes, just sometimes, the mystical texts offer a glimpse, a fleeting impression of that cosmic perspective. The Tikkunei Zohar, a later, deeply esoteric expansion on the Z...
The Torah touches on this in the Brit Bein Habetarim (ברית בין הבתרים), the Covenant Between the Pieces, in Genesis 15. But the story doesn't end there. The Legends of the Jews fil...
He wasn't born a leader, that's for sure. For forty long years, he was a shepherd for his father-in-law, Jethro. And let me tell you, he was a good one! Jethro had no complaints. A...
Some of the Jewish mystical tradition points to a pretty incredible source: the heavens themselves. Imagine Moses, not just receiving the Torah on Mount Sinai, but first journeying...
And his father-in-law, JETHRO, saw it happening right before his eyes. The story goes that Moses, after the Exodus, was single-handedly acting as judge for the entire Israelite nat...
After the Exodus, leading the Israelites wasn't just about miracles and divine guidance. It was about… people. And as any leader knows, people can be complicated. We read in Legend...
The story of Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, offers a fascinating glimpse. Jethro, who according to the tradition, excelled all other converts in his love for the Torah, wasn’t just ...
You’re marching towards… well, you don't exactly know where, but it's away from Pharaoh! Wouldn't you expect the Divine to hand down the ultimate instruction manual right then and ...
It’s a question as old as time, and one that even Moses, the great lawgiver himself, wrestled with. According to Ginzberg’s retelling in Legends of the Jews, while Moses was up on ...
