This is part four of a series of blog posts on Moses. “And I will give this people favour in the eye of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty,” Exodus 3:21 “Eye” is a word often associated with Envy. To “place one’s eye” on someone or something is to invoke …
This is part 3 in a series of posts on Moses. The LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” Exodus 4:2 The shepherd’s staff in Moses’ hand was the very symbol of his marginalisation. And yet through the wisdom of God it would become the instrument of his …
Having fled Egypt and stumbled into a new life in Midian, Moses enters what Rabbi Jonathan Sacks calls “the slow movement of the symphony of his life,” as a wilderness shepherd, close to the cycles of nature, far from his destiny in Egypt. I’ve always loved the narration on this moment from Charlton Heston’s Ten …
