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There's a lot more to that thorny shrub than meets the eye. Our tradition teaches us that the choice was far from arbitrary. In fact, the humble thorn-bush, or seneh in Hebrew, was...
We often imagine this grand spectacle, a booming voice from the heavens. But the traditional texts offer a much more intimate, nuanced picture of that pivotal moment. Imagine the s...
Like the universe is asking you to do something impossibly huge, and all you can think is, "Who, me?" That's precisely where Moses found himself. Imagine the scene: Moses, tending ...
Imagine being there, a realm far beyond our everyday understanding. And there, right before us, are the seraphim. These aren't your cute, cherubic angels from greeting cards. These...
According to Legends of the Jews, as retold by Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, Moses didn't just peek into the afterlife; he took a guided tour. And when he finally emerged from that harrowi...
The moment Moses departed this world, a heavenly voice, a bat kol, rang out. Can you imagine the sound? It declared, "Moses, servant of the Lord, thou that art faithful in His hous...
According to tradition, it's going to be quite the leadership gathering. Legends tell us that in that Messianic era, Moses himself will be one of the seven shepherds guiding Israel...
Would you still offer that help? That’s the dilemma, in a sense, that God faces in the lead-up to the Exodus. As we learn in Legends of the Jews, God, in speaking to Moses, lays ba...
Our ancestor Moses knew that feeling all too well. Imagine this: God Himself appears to you, commissioning you to lead an entire nation out of slavery. Sounds pretty epic. But Mose...
