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According to Legends of the Jews, as retold by Ginzberg, in the last heaven, Moses witnesses something truly awe-inspiring – and a little terrifying. He sees two massive angels, Af...
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...
The story goes that Moses, up on Mount Sinai, wasn’t just getting the Ten Commandments. He was getting a download of, well, everything. The past, the present, and, crucially, the f...
That feeling, that impossible tension, isn’t new. The Israelites felt it acutely during their enslavement in Egypt, and their frustration boiled over in a truly heartbreaking way. ...
Ginzberg, in Legends of the Jews, paints a vivid picture of the internal struggles within the Israelite community itself. It wasn’t all unity and resistance. There were figures lik...
The guy who parted the Red Sea, received the Ten Commandments. But even Moses had his moments of doubt. There’s this fascinating passage in Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, t...
It's not just the parting of the Red Sea, or the dramatic escape. It’s the sheer, focused intensity of it all. And at the heart of that intensity? The ten plagues. But have you eve...
It's easy to think of them as just escalating horrors, but sometimes the sequence itself holds a clue. Let's look at the plague of the frogs, the second of the ten, and see what we...
We often think about the plagues as pure punishment, but the tradition reveals a more nuanced picture. The fourth plague, hail, is a great example. : God, in His fury, is about to ...
