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That’s the feeling I get when I read about the prophets Eldad and Medad. Their story, as retold in Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews, is a fascinating little corner of Jewish propheti...
We're diving into a moment of profound disillusionment and rebellion in the Israelite camp, right after the spies return from scouting the land of Canaan. The people, as Ginzberg r...
Moses knew something profound. He understood that, more than anything else, God valued mercy. Remember the story of the Golden Calf? When the Israelites went completely astray, Mos...
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...
The story of Korah is a chilling example. We find it in the Book of Numbers (Numbers 16), but the Rabbis and storytellers throughout the ages have embellished it, explored it, and ...
Today, we're diving into a fascinating story from the book of Numbers, and elaborated upon in the classic work, Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, a compilation of centuries of...
We often think of the destruction of Korah and his followers as the end of a chapter, a moment of divine justice that should have brought peace. But according to Ginzberg's retelli...
Take Aaron, for example. After the tragic episode of the Golden Calf – a moment where Aaron, sadly, wasn't entirely blameless – God initially decreed that all four of Aaron's sons ...
The story of Og, King of Bashan, from Legends of the Jews, is a wild ride that explores just that! The Israelites, fresh from their victory against Sihon (a battle that, by the way...
