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They did what any of us might do: they complained. Loudly. But Moses, ever the leader, knew what to do. Instead of joining in the despair, he turned to the one source of true hope:...
It all started in a place called Elim. : when the world was first formed, the Almighty set up twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees there. Why those numbers? Well, they corr...
Here he was, fresh from witnessing the most incredible miracles, leading his people out of slavery, and what did he get in return? Gripes, complaints, and a profound lack of faith....
They're complaining, as people do when they’re hungry and thirsty and unsure of what tomorrow holds. They should have been praying! But instead of getting angry, God, in a moment o...
But Jewish tradition teaches us there was a deeply profound reason behind this daily dispensing of divine sustenance. Several reasons, actually. The Sages tell us that one purpose ...
Imagine, no matter what you were in the mood for, one bite would satisfy that desire perfectly. Well, according to tradition, the Israelites experienced just that with the manna (מ...
We often hear about the manna, that miraculous food from heaven, but the stories surrounding its arrival are just as fascinating as the food itself! Imagine this: you’re stranded i...
Not just any breakfast, mind you, but manna, that heavenly food that sustained the Israelites in the desert for forty years. According to Ginzberg’s retelling in Legends of the Jew...
The answer, of course, is manna. But the legends surrounding this heavenly food are even more astonishing than you might imagine. : feeding 600,000 people, plus their families, eve...
