Joseph

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Explore 2,014 Jewish texts related to the theme of Joseph, drawn from Midrash, Kabbalah, Apocrypha, and classical Jewish literature.

Giving of the Torah

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The Israelites certainly did. And their story, as told in the Legends of the Jews, offers a fascinating, and sometimes unsettling, glimpse into divine justice and, ultimately, rede...

Moses and Joseph of Circumcision

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The Israelites knew that feeling intimately after the incident with the spies. God, though He relented from completely wiping them out, wasn't exactly thrilled. And that distance m...

Noah Faces Judgment

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But like so many things in Jewish tradition, there's a hidden blessing nestled within the hardship. According to Legends of the Jews, that epic collection of stories compiled by Lo...

Korah and Joseph

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He wasn't a Canaanite, mind you, those ancient inhabitants of the land of Israel. But, like some of them, Korah serves as a cautionary tale: immense wealth, squandered by pride. Th...

Korah's Transgression of Moses

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That's the situation Korah and his followers found themselves in, and boy, were they vocal about it! Fueled by fiery rhetoric, Korah's band of rebels confronted Moses and Aaron, th...

Moses's Transgression and Abiram

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The story of Korah's rebellion, found in the Book of Numbers, is one of the most dramatic and unsettling in the Torah, and the defiant words of Dathan and Abiram, two key figures i...

Moses and Joseph

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He was dealing with a situation far beyond a simple disagreement. Two men, unnamed in this particular telling, had committed some transgression serious enough to warrant a confront...

Moses: Korah and the Fires of Gehenna

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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...

Miriam in Joseph's Time and Barnea

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That’s kind of the vibe of the Israelites' story as they wander the desert. After the infamous spy incident, where they balked at entering the Promised Land, they were sentenced to...