Shiphrah and Puah, two midwives in Egypt, were commanded by the tyrant Pharoah to kill all male Israelite babies. As Exodus’ ...
One verse, five voices. Edited by Nina Litvak and Salvador Litvak, the Accidental Talmudist The Egyptians ruthlessly imposed ...
We begin with Moses’ pivotal moment. He sees that a slave master is beating a Hebrew. The Torah tells us that Moses “turned ...
Hence this Pharaoh, if nothing else, deserves credit for being the first to actually recognize our ancestors not as mere ...
The first sentence raises many questions Ten of the eleven potions in the book of Exodus and many portions in other of the five books of Moses begin with the Hebrew letter vav ... could have just said ...
Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on what the Exodus story can teach us in the face of another ...