Moshe broke the Tablets of the Law in response to the construction of the golden calf (Exodus 32:19; Ta’anit 28b). In ...

Moses does not stand alone on Nevo – we stand with him. Together, we gaze toward a future we build but may never fully enter.

In the space of an hour -- plus an extra 10 to 15 minutes thrown in for good measure -- David Solomon outlines the 4,000 years of Jewish history, from 2000 B.C.E. to the present. Each white paper ...

Adar 7, 2368 (1393 BCE): Moses was born (Sotah 12b) in Egypt when that Pharaoh required all newborn Jewish baby boys to be drowned.His mother hid him in a reed basket, placing it in the Nile River ...

The Jewish History of Israel Is Over 3,000 Years Old. That’s Why It’s Complicated. May 28, 2021. ... the Israelites are still in the wilderness and Moses, our leader out of Egypt, ...

Author: Sacks, Elias December 2016. Description: Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) is often described as the founder of modern Jewish thought and as a leading philosopher of the late Enlightenment.One of ...

The tale of the spies reveals itself to be a kind of Jewish archetype — one which echoes throughout Jewish history in ever new iterations with subtly evolving significance.

“Can there be a history of a slave?” When Isaak Markus Jost asked this question, in the introduction to his “General History of the Israelite People,” published in 1832, it was by no means ...