Dr. Tzvi Novick points out in an insightful article in the Times of Israel (May 25,2023) entitled “Standing Under Sinai: On the Origins of a Coerced Covenant” that a famous rabbinical Midrash ...
Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis’s Mr. Tumnus than the casual viewer might expect—namely, a couple of ...
At Mount Sinai, God gave Moses a set of ten laws that they should follow in order to please him. Moses carved these laws on tablets of stone. God told Moses that if these rules were not followed ...
Throughout Scripture, God’s glory is depicted as overwhelming and unapproachable. At Mount Sinai, God’s presence was so terrifying that the Israelites trembled in fear (Exodus 19). When Moses ...
The tallest of them all, today a blackened triangular peak, was called Mount Sinai. According to the Torah, when Moses was summoned there to meet with God and receive His law, he disappeared into ...