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It has to do with the fact that in this case, the same incident recorded later in the Torah, seems to tell us that it was Moshe's own decision (and the populace's initiative) to send the mission. We d …

Does the following idea have any validity? Is it brought down anywhere? When members of the tribes of R'uven and Gad approached Moshe to unwaveringly request settlement on the east bank of the Jordan …

A shalom zachor is certainly the exception rather than the rule. And even given that, if I were the one instituting the practice (pardon my convenient historical abstraction) I think I would have no p …

The pasuk to which you refer describes Mard'chai as being both a Y'hudi and a Y'mini. The former term is the one that, in modern parlance, is translated as "Jew". In this case Y'hudi is a demonym re …

Interesting question! But Moshe need not have literally been judging all day long for Yisro's point to be legitimate. נָבֹל תִּבֹּל גַּם אַתָּה גַּם הָעָם הַזֶּה אֲשֶׁר עִמָּךְ כִּי כָבֵד מִמְּךָ הַד …

In describing the layout of B'nei Yisra'el's camp in the wilderness, the Torah records four groups (called d'galim) comprising 3 tribes each, and lists them in order, dictating a diagram of how they t …

The Malbi"m there brings down a dispute over the meanings of the two terms. Either כלי and שמלה are synonyms and both refer to articles of clothing, or כלי is a broader term that includes clothing (su …

How did Rash"i's commentary on the Torah become the primary (phrasing intentionally vague) commentary among the hundreds of others that have been written?

According to the midrash to which you allude (Sh'mos Raba 9:8), Par'o was intentionally hiding from people in order to lead them to the false conclusion that he was a deity. If so, I would assume he l …

I heard a shi'ur that cited the Pa'ne'ach Raza giving three answers to this question: He actually wanted people to see him there because they would see him acting toward the river in a degrading way …

However this is the only Shabbos that has a special name simply because of what we read in the Parsha. This is also the only parasha that has an extremely visible, long, brick-formatted, column-w …

The concept of the actions of the forebears being an indication of their descendants' actions is referred to by many commentators and midrashim, including the famous Ramba"n on B'reshis 12. What is t …

וַתְּדַבֵּ֨ר מִרְיָ֤ם וְאַהֲרֹן֙ בְּמֹשֶׁ֔ה Separating Miriam as the subject of one clause from Aharon as the subject of another clause is not syntactically plausible for a couple reasons: They …

RCA Manual series There is a many-year annual series of collected sermons delivered by members of the Rabbinical Council of America. They all come with the name and affiliation of the deliverer, as w …

There might be a big difference between "ideas" and "lessons", but perhaps you are referring to the assumption that the g'mara gives preference to earlier p'sukim over later ones when choosing proofte …