Getting Started

After all of this time traveling alongside Moses, have you started wondering what it would have been like to be him? To have an early sense of his own role delivering God’s people, only to turn into four decades as a fugitive and shepherd in Sinai? To then be called to return to Egypt and face Pharaoh with an unthinkable request—to let a chunk of his slave population just get up and leave?! Have you been empathizing with him as he faced opposition from enemies, and also from his own family? And what did you think when he struck the rock and lost the chance to join a new generation in the Promised Land?

Some commentators have called the Torah a biography of Moses. We know that’s not accurate because the most important figure in the stories and laws is YHWH, the King of the Universe. But Moses deserves a lesson devoted to what we might learn from his own journey as a servant and leader.