Monthly Archives: November 2009
The story of Balaam
The story of Balaam can be found in The Book of Numbers 22-24. Balaam was the son of Beor and a prophet of Pethor in Mes opotamia, currently Iraq. The story begins with the defeat of Amorites by Israel. According to Sages tradition, Moses wrote his book and the book of Balaam and Job. According [...]
The story of Susanna
The story of Susanna (“Lily”) is one of the books of the Protestant Apocrypha, entitled in some manuscripts “The Judgment of Daniel”. There are no early Jewish references to the book.If you take a look in the Hebrew Scriptures you will see that there are 12 chapters in The Book of Daniel.However, in the Old [...]
Why Moses did break the tablets of stone? – Part 2
The first answer to the question above is that Moses didn’t break the tablets deliberately. According to few Hebrew interpretations the letters of the Ten Commandments saw the joy and the happiness in the camp, and they decided to run away from the tablets, when they flew out of them- the strength of Moses wasn’t [...]
Why Moses did break the tablets of stone? – Part 1
Whenever I am thinking about the story of the golden calf, I imagine myself the people dancing, drinking to the visible “god”, thinking that this is him – this is their Lord, who took them out of Egypt to the promise land. This story brings to me a lot of question every time when I [...]
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