The Torah relates that: (31:18)’When’ Hashem ‘finished speaking to him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two Tablets of ...

The simple reading of the story (recorded twice in Torah, in Exodus, in this week's portion, and then again in Deuteronomy) goes like this: After the Jews created a Golden Calf, Moses smashed the ...

On the 17th of Tammuz, which will be observed as a fast day on June 25 this year, Moses smashed the Ten Commandments on the foot of Mount Sinai after hearing the sounds of and seeing the idolatrous ...

Coming down from Sinai with the carved tablets from God, we can understand Moses’s anguish at the golden calf. Still, it is hard to understand why Moses broke the tablets. One explanation is that it ...

Longer than the average Hollywood feature film and shorter than the average Passover Seder, “Exodus: Gods and Kings” tells the well-known story of how Moses led the enslaved Israelites out of bondage ...

hushed, as Hashem’s Homeric nod. Meir Soloveichik explained on 2/28/24 in a Tikvah lecture, “Wabi Sabi and the Second Tablets”: Let us ponder the Japanese notion of wabi sabi, a phrase that combines ...

Moses refused to give the Torah to a people who couldn't follow its teachings, writes the founder of a network that promotes a pluralistic approach to building Jewish identity. (JTA) — The festival of ...