Manna, The

The manna was more nourishment of soul than of body, and many Jews were left unsatisfied

The manna is to Jewish history what Shabbat is to the workday week: a precedent

We might be at home, or in the Synagogue. We might be praying in Hebrew or in another language. What are we trying to do when we pray?

Life is mostly waste. Take food, for example: we spend many hours earning the money, shopping, cooking, eating, and then most of it passes right through our bodies and into the city's sewer system

Moses Sweetens Bitter Water, Meat and Bread in the Desert, Water from a Rock

Departure from Sinai, The People Ask For Meat, The Seventy Elders, Miriam's Sin

Manna, the "bread from heaven" which sustained the Children of Israel during their 40 years of wandering through the desert, began to fall on the 16th of Iyar of the year 2448 from creation--one month after the Exodus (see "Today in Jewish History" for ...

They called the wonder-food "despicable." They claimed they could not stomach its "unnaturalness," that their bodies could not contain the miracle gift within its boundaries...

Manna, money, and Shabbat

The Jewish people have had a long journey through the wilderness of history. Moving almost ceaselessly from one country to another, sometimes through compulsion and sometimes through choice, they have come in contact with many other peoples and cultures. ...