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The voice that called him out of the fire was his father's voice, and Amram had been dead for years. Moses answered it before he knew who was speaking.
Rabbi Joshua ben Levi asked who would sit beside him in the World to Come, and the answer was a butcher who cared for his aging parents.
Mar Ukva gave charity in secret every day for years, and when the poor man finally chased him to see his face, Mar Ukva ran into a furnace.
The king who speaks every language hears an ant warn her colony before his army crushes them and learns his glory looks like danger from the ground.
A high priest in Jerusalem refused to send Alexander troops because of an oath he had sworn to a losing king. Alexander came up the road to collect.
Roman soldiers eat the wedding birds and a rebellion ignites. Bar Deroa holds the army off until he says God forgot them. Then a snake finishes it.
Goliath fell forward. A man struck in the face falls backward. David spent the rest of his life on the question of who steered that stone.
He had never been taught to read a line of it, so he waited in the synagogue for the one sentence he was allowed to say, and then he roared it.
The messengers pulled Lot through the door and blinded the mob outside. At dawn one of them said a word that was not his to say.
Moses set the Tent of Meeting outside the camp, and the seraphim, sun, and stars lined up to visit. God told him to come back to his people.
Aaron had been prophesying in Egypt for eighty years when his younger brother was chosen. He felt no envy, and so he wore the breastplate over his heart.
A trap meant to burn Maimonides alive closes on his accuser, he turns into a lion to break cruel decrees, and Ibn Ezra comes hunting his equal.
Solomon mapped the sea and spoke with ants, but four roads left no marker he could follow, and he confessed he was once simple.
The four living creatures strain forever under the Throne, crying blessed be the glory, and not one of them knows where that glory is.
Promised all of Canaan, Abraham still stood in Hebron as a stranger and paid for Sarah's tomb, then refused to bless Isaac lest jealousy crack the house.
Every creature in the garden drew into a ring around the first man and went down on its knees. He had been alive for less than a day.
Moses broke under Israel's complaints. God took spirit from him like light from a menorah lamp and set it on seventy elders.
At the burning bush Moses said no for seven days running. God told him there would be a bill for that, and it came due at the door of the Tabernacle.
After Sinai Moses stood outside the finished Tent, afraid of the cloud, until the Holy One called him alone by name.
Jotham escaped the stone where his brothers died. From Mount Gerizim he told a parable about trees that refused to be king, and a thorn-bush that agreed.
For forty days Moses learned Torah and forgot it. God poured it into him as a gift, and Ha-Satan (the Accuser) hunted the treasure across earth, sea, and death.
After the quarrel over pasture, Abraham still names Lot brother, thins his army to Eliezer alone, and chases kings past Dan into Hobah.
Angels and seraphim stop at the mist. Moses is drawn in like a fish through water and learns how to defend Israel.
His arms were heavy and the camp had pillows to spare. Amalek was still attacking, so Moses sat on a rock instead and kept his hands up.
Light steps down into coarse vessels and puts on dark garments so lowly things can be borne. The Soul seeks knowledge strong enough to hold the descent.
A Midianite priest nears the camp. Moses, Aaron, and seventy elders stream out. Before any miracle is told, two men ask after each other's peace.
Joshua crossed the Jordan, struck thirty-one kings, and won a loyalty Moses never heard. He still died without a son, while Saul fled a crown that chased him.
At the Jabbok Jacob called himself too small for kindness already given, and heaven loosened the merit that might have guarded Dinah when she went out.
While kings of east and west slept until the third hour, David rose at midnight to praise God, then asked his teacher if his judgments were pure.
In Tyre a sage rules a mixed-birth son must be circumcised on the Sabbath. Rabbi Haggai lays him down for lashes, traps him with law, and hears him yield.
