Moshe’s Surprising Successor

About this episode

This episode explores the surprising path of Joshua, the successor of Moshe, and the nature of human mistakes.

Mistakes are endemic to the human condition. All humans make mistakes. Even the titans of our history like Moshe, Aaron, and Joshua made mistakes. Only God is error-free. In this interesting – and maybe a tad controversial – podcast, we take a look at the unusual path of ascent of Moshe’s successor, Joshua. Joshua was […]

People in this episode

Host: Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe

Topics covered

• leadership
• mistakes
• successors
• history
• judaism

Keywords

• Joshua
• Moshe
• Aaron
• successor
• mistakes
• leadership
• judaism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: God

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