Moses

Parashat Beha'alotcha: Know your place

After Pharaoh intensified the Jewish slaves' work, Moses felt that his mission had failed. Out of deep pain, he turned to God and said, “Why have You done evil to these people? Why did You send me?

Reading a torah scroll
Title page of first edition of the Zohar, Mantua, 1558. (Photos: Wikimedia Commons)

'The Wisdom of Truth': Reaching the attic with a ladder to the Zohar - review

TAMBOURINE PLAYERS from the ‘Golden Haggadah’ (c. 1320), reflecting a medieval vision of Miriam and the women’s song after the crossing of the sea, The British Library, London

The hidden well: Exploring Miriam's leadership as a source of hope in war's shadow

You don't have to be superhuman to change history.

You don’t have to be Moses: This generation must rise to lead in a time of war - opinion


Passover Seder: Moses, matzah and modesty - opinion

Moses’s name is mentioned no less than 628 times in the Five Books of Moses, yet here, in the one place where he should shine the most, he is missing.

 BAKING MATZAH at Moshav Komemiyut.

What do Pharaoh, Moses teach Israel about its leadership crisis?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: There was a time when leaders thought of things larger than themselves.

DAVID BEN-GURION showing guests around Sde Boker.

What we can learn from the story of those who contributed eagerly, told to stop - opinion

In order to be of help to others, one must be on a certain moral and intellectual level, the writer explains.

 Money jar

Will Israel’s pro-judiciary revolt be violent?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Unlike this government's many tin soldiers and draft dodgers, the dissidents who called for an armed struggle are real war heroes.

 PROTESTERS AGAINST the current government and the planned reforms rally in Tel Aviv on January 28.

Rabbi Pinto: “The Book of Deuteronomy is the greatest book of ethics”

In light of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto’s renewed calls, many of his students joined the initiative to read the Book of Deuteronomy.


Parashat Beshalah: Searching for passion

Without our own passion and sacrifice, we have little to demand from the future. Don’t fear hardships or sacrifice – they will lead us to nobility and passion. 

 THE TORAH refers to Moshe’s hands as ‘hands of faith.’

Parashat Va’eira: Fact-checking

The small act of improving Moses’s speaking abilities would have gone a long way toward improving his ambitious agenda, yet God preserved Moses’s speech impediment.

 FEWER BULLHORNS, more introspection.

The Jewish leaders leading the Jewish people - then and now - opinion

Living in modern Israel is like living in a real-time ongoing Talmudic dispute.

 RIME MINISTER Yair Lapid arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem

Rosh Hashanah: ‘For my sake the world was created’

Each individual has the power and potential to change the world. Indeed, throughout Jewish history there were many individuals who literally changed the course of Jewish history.

 YOU – THE reason the world exists.

What are the Ten Commandments in the Bible? - explainer

The Ten Commandments have a central place in Judaism and Jewish history, given by God and Moses at Mount Sinai. Here's what you need to know about them.

 Moses and Aaron with the 10 Commandments (illustrative).