Posts Tagged: Israelites in Desert
Why Was Moses Not Destined to Enter the Land?
It is one of the most perplexing, even disturbing, passages in the Torah. Moses the faithful shepherd, who has led the Israelites for forty years,...
Fire: Holy and Unholy
The shock is immense. For several weeks and many chapters - the longest prelude in the Torah - we have read of the...
Prophet and Priest
The sedra (bible portion) of Tetsaveh, as commentators have noted, has one unusual feature: it is the only sedra from the beginning of Shemot...
