“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” When I was an avid 11-year-old reader of English literature, these ...
When Moses first encounters the Pharaoh on behalf of the Israelite slaves, he delivers God’s iconic message to the Pharaoh: ‘’Let my people go that they may celebrate to Me in the wilderness… Let us ...
At the central Vermont church I attend, in a stained-glass window that depicts the transfiguration, Moses has horns. When I researched why, I learned about the aurochs, a now extinct megacattle ...
Today, we think of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) with frank admiration, but during his lifetime and after his death, he sparked one of Judaism’s angriest disputes. The so-called “Maimonidean ...