Confronting a Conspiracy Theory |
Rebels attack Moses in this week’s portion with the most reckless verse in the Torah. “Is it not enough that you have taken us out of a land flowing with milk and honey to die from wandering while you lord yourself over us” (Num. 16:13). Egypt is not the land flowing with milk and honey. The spies, not Moses, cause the people to wander-to-death. And Moses is the most humble, not the most arrogant. This single-verse contains claims that aren’t merely false. They’re the total-opposite of what’s........