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Miriam HaNeviah

Miriam HaNeviah

1399 BCE1273 BCE · Biblical · Mount Sinai (Wilderness)

Miriam bat Amram was the sister of Moses and Aaron, and a prophetess of Israel during the Exodus from Egypt. According to rabbinic tradition, she played a crucial role in the deliverance of her brother Moses: when Pharaoh decreed the death of Hebrew male infants, Miriam watched over the basket in which her mother placed the infant Moses in the Nile, until Pharaoh's daughter discovered and rescued him. At the Red Sea, Miriam led the women of Israel in song and dance, celebrating their miraculous salvation. The Talmud credits her with prophecy and wisdom, and the well of water that sustained Israel in the wilderness was said by the Sages to have been granted on her merit. She died at Kadesh and was mourned by all Israel.

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Mount Sinai (Wilderness)Wilderness of Sinai

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About Mount Sinai (Wilderness)

Mount Sinai (Har Sinai, also called Horeb) is the mountain in the Sinai wilderness where, according to the Torah, God revealed Himself to the people of Israel and gave the Torah to Moses after the Exodus from Egypt. Its precise geographic location is not certain; it is traditionally identified with a peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula.

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Aharon HaKohen, Moshe Rabbenu, Seventy Elders

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Related figuresAharon HaKohenSuggested by shared subject matter, not a documented teaching relationship.