Where did the Pharaoh find horses for the 600 ‘’picked chariots’’, indeed, ‘’all the chariots of Egypt’’ who pursued the just-freed Israelites overtaking ‘’them encamped by the sea’’?
One who serves others must be fired up without letting go. And this may very well be the reason for the repeated need for the altar’s flame to keep going constantly...
While the book of Leviticus and its first portion Vaikra focus considerably on animal sacrifices as a standard way of serving God, they do offer alternative offerings...
Having overheard such merciless slanders Moses decided right away to provide a full and exhaustive report about the gifts that the people gave for the building of the Tent of Meeting and for the making of its accessories...
Rather than owning up to his failed leadership by not standing up to the people, who had demanded the making of a golden calf to supersede Moses on the 40th day since his “disappearance”, Aaron blamed the people...
This Torah portion Tetsaveh is unique if only because it is the only portion in the Torah (since we have been introduced to Moses at the beginning of Exodus) where his name per se is absent...
This weekly portion of Torah uses a significantly different verb -- "And they shall make" (a single Hebrew word) -- in its instruction regarding the making of an Ark that would house the stone tablets that Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai.
I am not convinced that Jethro did convert he’s definitely a man of substance, and of great values, and, I for one, would like to believe that this is why this unique and important Parashah is not named, for instance as the "Sabbath of Torah", or the “Sabbath of Sinai”, etc., but as the “Sabbath of Jethro".
דרכם של בני מדיין ובני ישראל התחילה כמשפחה; נמשכה כבני ברית; והסתיימה כאויבים. ריכזנו עבורכם את כל המאמרים שהופיעו באתר 'ייצור ידע', אודות מדיין ומדיינים, על פי הכותבים (בסדר הא"ב). קריאה נעימה!