“Moshe did as Adonai had ordered. They went up onto Mount Hor before the eyes of the whole community.  Moshe removed the garments from Aharon, and put them on Eleazar his son, and Aharon died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moshe and Eleazar came down the mountain. When the entire community saw […]

Yesterday I talked about how the phrase “gathered to his kin” was simply a reflection of the pagan ancestor worship belief system the Israelites had absorbed from their stay in Egypt. The point I wanted to make is that the Israelites simply took the laws and commands they received from God and filtered them through […]

“Aharon is about to be gathered to his kin, because he is not to enter the land I have given to the people of Israel, in as much as you rebelled against what I said at the M’rivah Spring. Take Aharon and El‘azar his son, bring them up to Mount Hor, remove the garments from […]

“Moshe sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: “This is what your brother Israel says: you know all the troubles we have gone through — that our ancestors went down into Egypt, we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly. But when we cried out […]

“But Adonai said to Moshe and Aharon, ‘Because you did not trust in me, so as to cause me to be regarded as holy by the people of Isra’el, you will not bring this community into the land I have given them.’This is M’rivah Spring [Disputation Spring], where the people of Israel disputed with Adonai, […]