When the Israelites saw it ... out that the verse “contains the entire Hebrew alphabet,” so the gathering of manna can also be understood as creating time for the study and living of Torah ...

And the house of Israel called the name thereof manna; and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey (Exodus 16:31). The taste of it was as the taste ...

like the meaty angel of truth in “The Triumph of Truth Over Heresy,” or the round-shouldered women in “The Israelites Gathering Manna in the Desert.” Both are in the Getty’s unique new ...

The favored theory on what the Israelites called manna is the sap of a tamarisk tree. In Calabria and Sicily, Italian farmers cut the bark of the flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus) to get the dried ...

It concludes with the Israelites wandering in the desert, their desperate gathering of manna, and Moses leading them with guidance and hope. This visually rich portrayal combines biblical tales ...

Manna, gift of Heaven upon which the Israelites fed on their exodus from Egypt to Canaan, was but the excretion from the bodies of certain coccids, a kind of plant lice which infested the tamarisk ...

Among all the other strange language used in the Haggadah, it never occurred to me to wonder back then, what the heck was manna, anyway? Was this food that sustained the Israelites in the desert ...

believed to have fallen from heaven to provide food for the Israelites in the Sinai desert during the Exodus from Egypt. Some authors considered the manna to be a desert lichen, Lecanora esculenta ...