That doesn’t prevent God from saying to Moses on the horizontal level — speaking geographically now — “you will not be able to see My face, for no human can see Me and live” (Exod 33:20).

Moses was in the presence of God; he was face to face with God in an encounter of theophany and glory. It was so powerful it made Moses glow! People are also reading… ...

“And God would speak to Moses face to face, as one person speaks to another.”-Exodus 33:11. However, just a few verses later, when Moses asks to see God’s Presence, God replies: ...

Moses would then put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with God” (Exodus 34:34-35). Like God, Moses is also concealing his face. Again, our sages disagree about why Moses ...

“The desire to truly know God, that is, to see the face of God, is inherent in every human being,” he said Jan. 16 in Paul VI Hall. ... including Moses and the prophets, ...

You know the feeling of being right. You’re in the heat of an argument, or what really wouldn’t be an argument if the other ...

He let God have the glory. It turns out Moses was superlative, though not in a way that we humans tend to notice or admire. As today’s reading tells us, he was the meekest man on the face of the ...

While the scripture says seeing God’s face is a rather fatal encounter - “’But,’ He said, ‘you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live,’” (Exodus 33:20) - many people have ...