MOSES, MIRIAM CRYSTALENE, age 84, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 25, 2006, at Memorial Hospital, Chattanooga ...

his faith a burning bush that always burned. Although Miriam was not Moses’ “little sister,” but his older sister, who heroically helped his mother save his life when it was threatened by ...

It seems unfair. Both Aaron and Miriam spoke disparagingly of their brother Moses. Both Aaron and Miriam failed to grasp the unique level of Moses’ prophecy. They thought Moses was their ...

The Miriam of parshat behaalotcha is depicted as one who complains. Here she and her brother Aaron accuse Moses about the Cushite woman he had married. There are midrashim which say that he is ...

In case of abuse, There are many mysteries surrounding the episode at the end of this week’s parsha when Miriam and Aaron say something to Moses with regards to the “Cushite” woman whom he ...

Talmudic sages believed that Shifrah and Puah were actually Moses’s mother, Yocheved, and his older sister, Miriam (with Yocheved being Shifrah). But whether or not Yocheved was one of the ...

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Though named Shiphrah and Puah in the text, they were actually Yocheved and her daughter Miriam, Moses’ sister. Why was her alternate name Shiphrah? Because she would cleanse, meshaperet ...

Most academic scholars consider cuneiform as the world’s first writing system, originating in Mesopotamia, to inscribe ancient languages like Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BCE.

Civilization was “invented” separately 5 or 6 times around the world (one of those other times happened in Egypt). It is true that ancient Mesopotamia was first historically and was one of the ...