Behaalotecha

The classic commentators ask the same question. Here are some of their answers: Rabbi Chayim Atar Or Hachayim 16:3 tells us that in order to understand this, we must look carefully at their complaint: "…when we sat by pots of meat, when we ate bread to ou...

"בהעלתך את הנרת" “When you kindle the lamps....” (8:2) QUESTION: Rashi explains that the word “beha’alotecha” (literally “when you step up”) is used because there was a ma’aleh — step — in front of the menorah on which the Kohen stood as he prepared the w...

The manna (in Hebrew, מן, which is more accurately transliterated as mon) was the miraculous edible substance that fell each day from heaven during the 40-year period between the Exodus and the conquest of Israel, providing our ancestors with sustenance t...

"And Moses was exceedingly humble, more than any man on the face of the earth". Very nice compliment, but who wrote this verse? Moses himself! Is that called humility?