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 ...

He arrived in the land of Midian, and sat down beside a well. (Exodus 2:11, 12, 15) Despite spending his formative years in Pharoah's palace at court, Moses clearly knew who he was and what he had to ...

It describes the divinely-mandated war with Midian, ... thousands of women and children and millions of animals, Moses grows furious at the commanders and orders (vv. 17-18): ...

Moses said to Chovav, the son of Re’u’el, the Midianite, ... Instead, he intended to return to Midian, convert the rest of his family to Judaism and meet up with the Israelites in Canaan.

“They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every man,” the passage reads. “Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba — the five kings of Midian.

Bracha Goetz Author of 40 Jewish Children’s Books. Moses sent one thousand men from each tribe, including the tribe of Levi, which was usually exempt from army service, to fight against Midian.

He is not a Midianite, but in Midian he has found more belonging than ever before, and all he wants is to stay. At the burning bush, Moses outlines all the points of outsiderness he has felt his whole ...

We continue our study of the life of the man Moses with a unique meeting between God and Moses in the barren desert of Midian. Moses had spent 40 years taking care of his father-in-law Jethro ...

Moses’s name is mentioned no less than 628 times in the Five Books of Moses, yet here, ... they were back in Midian with Moses’s wife Tzipora and his father-in-law Jethro.

I imagine Moses in Midian like that / Brooding in exile / Burdened by his people’s suffering / Knowing that each day / They scream from stopped-up hearts / Shedding silent tears.