Moses and the white wolf

Posted by Eli Dahan on March 19, 2010 under Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Jewish Folklore | Be the First to Comment

Some legends that we know from childhood seems to be forgotten and from time to time we want to remember the time we were kids, the time that the kindergarten told us the stories, the legends that we loved to hear all the time.

Usually the wolf in the legends is the symbol of the bad type, the one who kills, the one that we can’t rely on, but not all the legends with the wolves goes like this. Today we are going to meet the white wolf that Moses met in the time he was a shepherd in Jethro’s house and he saw a white wolf and he started to speak with him.

Now Moses didn’t know that the white wolf is an angel. The white wolf said to

Moses: How are you the man of God?

Moses answered: could the animals speak, who is the one that gives them the ability to do so?

Then the white wolf told him that he would be the one who would be the leader of Israel that will write the Pentateuch and there will be the calf that will speak and also the she-ass…

It seems to be that Moses saw one more thing near to the burning bush and this is the white wolf……..

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Moses in the pit or why did Moses marry Zipporah?

Posted by Eli Dahan on February 26, 2010 under Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Jewish Folklore | Be the First to Comment

In the book of Exodus is written:

"וַתֹּאמַרְןָ–אִישׁ מִצְרִי, הִצִּילָנוּ מִיַּד הָרֹעִים; וְגַם-דָּלֹה דָלָה לָנוּ, וַיַּשְׁקְ אֶת-הַצֹּאן. וַיֹּאמֶר אֶל-בְּנֹתָיו, וְאַיּוֹ; לָמָּה זֶּה עֲזַבְתֶּן אֶת-הָאִישׁ, קִרְאֶן לוֹ וְיֹאכַל לָחֶם. וַיּוֹאֶל מֹשֶׁה, לָשֶׁבֶת אֶת-הָאִישׁ; וַיִּתֵּן אֶת-צִפֹּרָה בִתּוֹ, לְמֹשֶׁה"

"And they said: ‘An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock and he said unto his daughters: ‘And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.’And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter" (Ex 2:19-21)

We all know that Moses went out from Egypt after pharaoh discovered that he killed an Egyptian man. Moses went to a place called Midian and there he helped the daughters of Reuel. Zipporah was one of the daughters and Moses married her after he the helping with the shepherd near the well.

The legend on Moses tells us a different story. Reuel was afraid that the king of Egypt will find moses in his house so he decided to put him in a pit. Zipporah felt mercy over him; she came to see him every day and gave some bread.

After seven years she told to her father: you put a clean man, pure one, in the pit. He didn’t drink a lot of days, but he is praying to his God so he is alive.

Reuel went to see the man, Moses, that was singing a song to his Lord in that day, so he took him out from the pit and gave him to Zipporah, only because she spoke the good things about him…

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Why Moses is the father of the prophets?

Posted by Eli Dahan on February 16, 2010 under Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Jewish Folklore | Be the First to Comment

The question why is the second after what. At first man wants to understand the subject, the figures, the story, the place and the time; only then, he wants to understand why we have the story, why this character and not the other one….

Today we are going to ask the question why about one of the well-known people over this planet, the man that everyone knows how and when he was born, but no one knows where we can find his grave until today- this is off course Moses.

Moses was born according to the Jewish legends as a circumcised person. He was taken by the daughter of Pharaoh to the palace. But the small little kid couldn’t be the prince of Egypt- he became the leader of the people of Israel- the question today is why?

If we will say that Moses was actually Egyptian as some of the commentaries say, so we can say that only a foreigner could take the leadership over this people; if we will say that Moses was Hebrew, there must be a better explanation to this question.

The answer is depend on the profession that Moses had and with one little verse in the book of Exodus 3:1 –

"וּמֹשֶׁה, הָיָה רֹעֶה אֶת-צֹאן יִתְרוֹ חֹתְנוֹ–כֹּהֵן מִדְיָן; וַיִּנְהַג אֶת-הַצֹּאן אַחַר הַמִּדְבָּר…"

"Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the farthest end of the wilderness…"

The answer why here is really simple: the only person that can take the flock in the wilderness could take a people there. There is another story that as a small kid I heard a lot- once upon a time Moses lost one of his sheep; he searched her alone in the wilderness for a long time- The Lord said: if he is taking care of one sheep like this- he could be the leader of my people…

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Why Moses did break the tablets of stone? – Part 3

Posted by Eli Dahan on November 16, 2009 under Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Jewish Folklore | Be the First to Comment

If the almighty commended Moses to break the tablets, there is a big question that arise- why The Lord waited that Moses will go down from the mountain of Sinai And then he told him to break them?

Another story that is very common is the fight between Moses and the 70 old people from Israel on the breaking of the tablets. Moses held the tablets from the first side and all the 70 held it from the other side.

It seems to be that Moses is in between – the words of The Lord and the people of Israel. The common answer to those questions is that Moses broke the tablets and then God gave him the permeation. If this theory is correct we have more evidence in the court that asks why Moses didn’t enter to the promise land- he did another thing by his thoughts and that’s the breaking of tablets!

As for me – I think that the breaking is a sign of rebellion – Moses didn’t understand why God decided to concede the people of Israel – so he decided to break the rules – in all of the meanings, really and with the use of the metaphor of the song of Pink Floyd- breaking the walls…..

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