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The Israelites certainly did. They were staring down some serious threats after escaping Egypt, and one of the scariest? Giants. But these weren't just any giants. We’re talking ab...
The story goes that when the spies returned from scouting the land of Canaan – what we know today as Palestine/Israel – they cooked up a scheme to discourage the Israelites from ev...
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...
Moses, desperate, remembers a secret he learned during his time on Mount Sinai, when he ascended to receive the Torah. It's a pretty wild story, actually. Each angel he encountered...
to a story from Legends of the Jews by Ginzberg that really brings this home. The Israelites, thirsty and weary, gathered around Moses, desperate for water. Moses, understandably, ...
That’s the kind of experience the Israelites faced after the death of Aaron, the High Priest, according to Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews. Imagine this: Moses and Eleazar return fr...
The Talmud (Sanhedrin 105a) actually tells us that Balaam, the infamous prophet-for-hire, was one of three individuals whom God tested and who utterly failed. He's in dark company,...
Take Balaam, for example. He's one of those figures in Jewish tradition that just… fascinates. We find him in the Book of Numbers, a non-Israelite prophet hired to curse the Israel...
It all boils down to a simple, yet profound observation: "Throw the stick up in the air it will always return to its original place." This idea sets the stage for a rather scandalo...
