Moses

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Explore 3,889 Jewish texts related to the theme of Moses, drawn from Midrash, Kabbalah, Apocrypha, and classical Jewish literature.

The Golden Calf

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Oh no. Some faced a rather unpleasant form of divine justice, involving… drinking water. Yep, you heard that right. Drinking water! But not just any water. This water, according to...

Giving of the Torah and Thou

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Impatient, fearful, they construct a golden idol, a symbol of their own making. A betrayal that cuts deep. The immediate aftermath was devastating. According to Ginzberg's retellin...

Israelites: The Golden Calf

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That’s the tightrope Moses walked, and according to Legends of the Jews, his bold words weren't without repercussions. Remember the Golden Calf? The Israelites, fresh from their li...

Divine Presence and Israelites

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The Torah tells us about the Ohel Moed, the Tent of Meeting, a portable sanctuary that Moses set up outside the Israelite camp. But according to tradition, it wasn't just the Israe...

The Golden Calf and Abraham

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But Moses, Moshe Rabbenu, our teacher, wasn't about to give up on them. For forty days and forty nights—that's right, another forty-day stretch in the Bible—from the 18th of Tammuz...

Divine Presence

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It wasn't just about leading the Israelites out of Egypt. According to the Legends of the Jews, as retold by Louis Ginzberg, Moses harbored three deep desires. First, he yearned fo...

Moses in Battle

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Even MOSES, the great lawgiver himself, wrestled with this. According to Ginzberg's retelling in Legends of the Jews, Moses needed to understand why the righteous weren't always re...

Giving of the Torah

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It’s a question as old as time, and one that even Moses, the great lawgiver himself, wrestled with. According to Ginzberg’s retelling in Legends of the Jews, while Moses was up on ...

Giving of the Torah

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And it's a question that Moses, our great leader, dared to ask. Even after witnessing incredible miracles, after leading the Israelites out of Egypt, after receiving the Torah itse...