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The Book of Jubilees, for those who aren't familiar, is an ancient Jewish text, considered part of the biblical apocrypha or pseudepigrapha – writings that hover around the edges o...
The Book of Jasher, an ancient Hebrew text referenced in the Bible itself (Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18), fills in some of those gaps. It's like a behind-the-scenes look at the l...
Moses was sanctified by the cloud and received the Torah at Sinai, as it is stated, And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered him six days.1Ex. 24, 16...
R. ḤANINA B. DOSA SAID: HE WHOSE FEAR OF SIN COMES BEFORE HIS WISDOM, HIS WISDOM SHALL ENDURE; [BUT HE WHOSE WISDOM COMES BEFORE HIS FEAR OF SIN, HIS WISDOM SHALL NOT ENDURE,] as i...
On the seventh day after the Ten Commandments Moshe went up on the mountain, as it says "The Presence of the LORD abode on Mount Sinai, and the cloud hid it for six days..." (Shemo...
And Jacob sent messengers (Gen. 32:4). Scripture states elsewhere in allusion to this verse: And the Lord uttereth His voice before His army; for his camp is very great, for He is ...
(Numb. 1:1) “Then the Lord spoke unto Moses in the Sinai desert.” [Sinai] was called by six names: Mountain of God (as in Ps. 68:16), Mount Bashan (ibid.), Mountain of Peaks (ibid....
"And it was on the day that Moses had finished" (Numbers 7:1). So did Rabbi Tanchuma bar Abba open [his discourse from] (Proverbs 30:4), "Who has ascended heaven and come down": Th...
It's more than just tradition; it's a cosmic wake-up call. The most direct reason is because God Himself commanded it! "Sound a ram's horn before Me," He said, "so that I remember ...
