The story of Moses is central to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. He led the Israelites out of Egypt, received the ...

I just finished teaching a six-week course that was an introduction to the Talmud. Having spent years in its study, it was a chance for me to see it with new eyes. A teacher must be in touch with the ...

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In this week’s parasha, Devarim, Moses focused on the years when the Jewish nation wandered in the desert and on the trials and tribulations they experienced there. This week, we begin reading the ...

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’s sheep ...

Although modern traditionalist Judaism uniformly affirms the divinity of the Torah, classical sources disagree on what role Moses had in its production. “VeZot haTorah — This is the Torah that Moses ...

It will be claimed here that Jewish and non-Jewish theologians and philosophers – such as Philo of Alexandria, Maimonides, ...

At the end of Hebrews 2, we are told that Jesus had to be made like us. He had to become one of us in order to redeem us. He had to be made like his brothers and the sisters in every respect in order ...