Friday, March 31, 2017

parshanut torah comment - What did the Jews do all day in the desert for 40 years?


They had food prepared for them.


Rashi says that during the first and last years they had a lot of journeys. But in the middle 38 years, there were only 20 journeys. Even though that doesn't tell us anything about how much time they were resting vs. traveling, Rashi does explain that they were not constantly traveling. There were a lot of resting periods.


What did they do all day? How did they spend their time?





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