The one who shepherded Israel for decades is, in our parashah, the very one who takes leave of the role of “the faithful shepherd” as his life draws to a close. Moses—whose very name, in its midrashic ...

Rashi tells us that when Moses avoided responding immediately to Korah’s complaint, his reason was perhaps that Korah’s ...

Elie Wiesel describes Moses as “the loneliest” character in the Bible. Moses is the ruler of an unruly bunch of former slaves, as well as a prophet and lawgiver, and, for a short time, the High Priest ...

This article looks at the life and times of the Prophet Moses, who led the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt and received the Ten Commandments from God. One of Judaism's great figures is the man called Moshe ...

In my book, The Word Set in Stone: How Archaeology, Science, and History Back Up the Bible, I contended that there is a verified natural explanation for water coming out of the rocks in the Sinai ...

Statue of Moses by Michelangelo in Rome. (Credit: Fr Barry Braum//Unsplash.) Listen The life of prayer is not easy. It’s a tremendous blessing and encouragement, therefore, to see others pray and to ...

Chapter 2 of Exodus presents one of the most troubling episodes in the Torah: Moses’ first independent action as an adult. “He turned this way and that, and, seeing there was no one [man] about (eyn ...