Aharon HaKohen
1396 BCE–1273 BCE · Biblical · Mount Sinai (Wilderness)
Aharon ben Amram was the first Kohen Gadol (High Priest) of Israel and brother of Moses. He served as Moses's spokesman and partner in leading the Israelites from Egypt through the wilderness. Aharon was consecrated to the priesthood at Mount Sinai and established the service of the Tabernacle, creating the foundation for all subsequent Jewish priestly practice. In Talmudic tradition, he is remembered as a peacemaker who pursued peace and loved all people. He lived in the wilderness period and died on Mount Hor before the Israelites entered the Land of Canaan.
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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, according to the Torah, the mountain in the wilderness where God revealed Himself to Israel and gave the Torah to Moses after the Exodus; the tradition is also honoured in Christianity and Islam. Its original location is uncertain and several sites have been proposed, but since late antiquity it has been identified with Jabal Musa, a 2,285-metre peak in Egypt's southern Sinai Peninsula. Christian monks were living there by the late fourth century, and the Byzantine emperor Justinian built St Catherine's Monastery at its foot in 548–565; it is often described as the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery. Ascetic writers such as John Climacus, author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent, lived there.
In Mount Sinai (Wilderness) at the same time
Miriam HaNeviah, Moshe Rabbenu, Betzalel, Seventy Elders, Yitro
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Aharon HaKohen’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Miriam HaNeviah, Moshe Rabbenu, Betzalel, Seventy Elders, Yitro
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