Moses: In His Time and Ours

Moses is the single most decisive figure in Jewish history, and it is not overpraising him to call him the founder of Judaism as we know it today. Although the Bible reports that God revealed himself to Abraham and entered into a covenant with him several centuries before the birth of Moses, the defining events of Judaism took place during the lifetime of Moses--the emancipation of the Israelites, the forty years of wandering that transformed them into a nation, and, above all, the giving of the…