As the saying goes, “עם הנצח לא מפחד מדרך ארוכה” — “The eternal nation is not afraid of a long journey.” Shabbat Shalom.

O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you…” This verse, spoken by Moses to his people, recognises the land’s divine allocation to the Israelites. Surah Al-Isra (17:104) further ...

Only Joshua and Caleb would go, because they had encouraged the people to enter the land. This is the reason the Israelites spent the next thirty-eight years in the desert: they had allowed fear ...

Later, we enter the walled Old City through the Zion Gate, once the Jerusalem border of Israel and Jordan, until the ’67 Six-Day War, and which today is the entrance to the Jewish Quarter.

Mosheh saw the Promised Land from afar, but was not allowed to enter. The Water of Merivah The incident at the waters of Merivah, in Kadesh barnea, is recorded in Numbers 20.

Long before they reach the Promised Land, I find myself losing patience with the ancient Israelites. Why can they never get their act together? Uniquely among the people of the ancient world, the ...

God spares Caleb and Joshua—they alone will survive to enter the Promised Land. (The other spies, meanwhile, die quickly from plague.) The Israelites are “overcome by grief” when they hear ...

The “promise” of the Promised Land is in jeopardy. The Israelites were exiled time and again during numerous periods of history, only to return and to miraculously reclaim their land. As we enter the ...