“Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it ‘the tent of meeting.’ Anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp. (….) ...

Deuteronomy 33, often called “The Blessing of Moses,” is Moses’ final address to Israel before his death. It presents both ...

So often God called Moses. / Three times they met; / at the flaming bush, / on Sinai amidst rock and stone, / and before the Tent of Meeting / that Moses might intuit God’s mind / and soothe God’s ...

Exodus, Chapter 1 Exodus begins with a population crisis. Jacob’s descendants have multiplied and prospered in Egypt, “and the land was filled with them.” The new Pharaoh is alarmed and “oppressed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since the 2004 megahit “The Passion of the Christ,” Hollywood has been open-minded to faith-based entertainment, and 2014 has seen both economic true-believer productions (“Left Behind,” “God’s ...

Ridley Scott's biblical epic "Exodus: Gods and Kings" is by turns fascinating and infuriating, exciting and tedious, head-scratching and inspiring. If you have any devotion to either Moses or the ...

When I traveled in India I realized that the Torah’s concerns regarding idolatry, and its warnings against it, are not as divorced from reality as I had previously thought. I understood that the depth ...

Warner Bros. and producers Dan Lin and Matti Leshem are developing a Moses epic by the title of Gods and Kings. They reached out to Steven Spielberg to direct last fall, but the odds seemed low since ...