Beshalach 5: learning to eat
The first thing the children of Israel receive, even before they are free, is the calendar. They need to start learning how to manage their time. That includes learning to postpone some things, such as eating hours.
Who is in the Details?
We are taught to believe that the text of the Torah is extremely economic and succinct, and that Torah and redundancy are mutually exclusive. We therefore cannot help but wonder why the Torah is so verbose when describing the construction of the Tabernacle. To answer this question, I think we should consider the phenomenon of […]