At Sinai, after the crossing of the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21–22), he brought words of God to his people. Moses brought down the ...

Hence, the phrase “Moses and Aaron” appears 64 times in the RSV, in the [Protestant 66-book] Old Testament: all but five of these instances in Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers.

The Sages themselves constantly used the title Moshe Rabbenu – Moses our teacher – yet Hillel the Elder did not choose him as the model to be emulated, but rather Aaron. Why?

Moses and Aaron carry the relationships with the leaders of the Israelites. It was the leaders who helped to organize the slaves to be ready to leave at a moment’s notice.

Moses and Aaron were done as leaders. They became unfit, not because they messed up, but because we didn’t deserve them anymore. They were unable to hallow G^d’s Name, ...

What Moses is doing in v. 27, then, is not bidding his father-in-law a fond farewell. He is getting rid of his father-in-law, perhaps in a polite way, but getting rid of him all the same.

“Moses and Aaron” was scheduled for a DVD release in 2008 by New Yorker Films; the release was postponed to 2009, but then the company “ceased operations” soon thereafter and the DVD never ...