While their parting was peaceful, Moses took world civilization along a very different path. When God tells him it is time to take up a new job he leaves Midian. He returns to Egypt. The first thing ...

Moses saw it coming. “Moses defending the daughters of Jethro,” J. and B. Lebrun, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Felton Bequest, 1926 ...

Moses flees to the land of Midian where he intervenes to protect a group of sisters from the local shepherds. As pointed out by one of the great Torah teachers of the 20th century, Nehama ...

The chapter goes on to describe, in excruciating detail, the fate of every girl, sheep, bracelet, etc. — but not the boys and women. Is it possible that they were not subject to such a cruel fate?

Moses had spent 40 years taking care of his father-in-law Jethro’s sheep when one day God spoke to Moses from a miraculous bush that was burning without being consumed.

LET US go back to the beginning. ... Moses escapes to Midian, where he becomes a shepherd. He encounters God in the burning bush, and is charged with taking the people out of Egypt.

Getting wind of this, Pharaoh tries to kill Moses, who flees across the Red Sea to Midian. There he is welcomed by a local priest and marries the priest’s daughter, who gives birth to a son who ...

Following the punitive war against Midian, Elazar the High Priest taught the soldiers how to kasher the utensils they had captured during the campaign. “This is the Torah law that God commanded ...