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That’s kind of how Moses felt about Korah's rebellion. According to Ginzberg's retelling in Legends of the Jews, Moses took Korah's transgression deeply to heart, fearing that afte...
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...
These weren't exactly the heroes of our story, you see. Remember Korah's rebellion? Dathan and Abiram were right there, stirring up trouble. They challenged Moses's leadership, que...
A pretty definitive ending, you might think. But the story doesn't stop there. Oh no. Jewish tradition loves to explore the "what happens next?" What happens to these rebels after ...
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...
It happened to Moses, even after forty years of leading the Israelites through the wilderness. And the consequences, according to tradition, were profound. For four decades, Moses,...
Like Moses, for instance. He led the Israelites out of Egypt, received the Torah, and yet, he never set foot in the Promised Land. Why? We often point to the incident at Kadesh, wh...
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, ...
Take Aaron, for instance, Moses' brother. We know Moses as the lawgiver, the one who spoke to God face-to-face. But Aaron... well, the people loved Aaron. And that’s saying somethi...
