The revelation at Mount Sinai is forever etched into the minds of the Jewish people. In fact, these Ten Commandments have served as the cornerstone for the basic principles of monotheism for ...

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National Geographic explores notable biblical figures in our ongoing series People in the Bible, as part of our coverage of the history of the Bible and the search for sacred texts. Moses’s life was ...

Saved from a watery death by Pharaoh’s daughter and raised among Egyptian royalty, Moses would not have seemed to be a candidate for freeing the Hebrews from Egyptian slavery. God’s designs are not, ...

In the book of Exodus, we read one of the most profound leadership weakness that Jethro spotted in Moses, his son in law. “What you are doing is not good. You and these people who come to you will ...

This year, the day after the Sabbath on which we read Yitro is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday – and I have another Torah puzzler for you. What’s the connection between Lincoln and Moses? The simplest ...

On this day, in the Office of Readings, the story of Moses continues, as Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, gives him some advice. Jethro had arrived at the Israelites' encampment the day before. Back in ...