If your religion is based on a sacred scripture it is very important to have some basic knowledge of its language. This is especially true for Hindus (Sanskrit), Jews (Hebrew) and Muslims (Arabic).

“In the wilderness of Sinai” are the opening words of the book of Numbers, the fourth and longest book of the Torah. Despite the textual interruption of Leviticus, we pick up the story on the heels of ...

The parsha of Bamidbar is generally read on the Shabbat before Shavuot, z’man matan torateinu, “the time of the giving of our law,” the revelation at Sinai. So the Sages, believing that nothing is ...

Sunday school pupils will be asked to contribute ten cents each to raise $3,000 to finance excavations by Dr. Nelsen Glueck, archaeologist of the Hebrew Union College, at what he believes to be the ...

The good news from the Sinai is that there is no news. Despite the transition two years ago from Israeli to Egyptian stewardship, nothing important has changed in the ”great and terrible wilderness,” ...

"And God spoke to Moses in the Sinai Wilderness" (Numbers 1:1). Why the Sinai Wilderness? From here the Sages taught that the Torah was given through three things: fire, water, and wilderness. How do ...

The Greek orthodox monastery of St. Catherine on the slopes of Mount Sinai — where tradition says God delivered the Ten Commandments to Moses — ought to be the last place on earth targeted by Muslim ...

“Sinai connects us to the stars, sand, fires, and silence - the simple things we don’t have in the modern world - which feel precious as soon as we experience them,” says Ben Hoffler, designer of ...

MR. H. J. L. BEAUNELL, during his service in the Geological Survey of Egypt, enjoyed the privilege of two years' survey of the mountains of Sinai. In this book he gives an interesting narrative of his ...