# <![CDATA[Where’s Your Donkey?]]>

From **Online Torah Classes with Rabbi Mendy Goldberg** by R Mendy Goldberg.

- **Published:** Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:39:18 GMT
- **Duration:** 00:47:56
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<![CDATA[<p><strong>SHEMOS</strong></p><p><strong>Where’s Your Donkey?</strong></p><p><br></p><p>There’s always been a tension between the divine and the profane; the spiritual and the material.</p><p>Are they meant to be in a state of perennial conflict? Can there – and should there- be harmony between the body and the spirit?</p><p>What is the Torah’s fascination with donkeys? Why does the Torah accord such prominence to the donkey, which among animals that carry humans is the slowest and least intelligent? A donkey is meant to bear burdens, not people. Why, then, do important figures travel on a donkey rather than on a more dignified animal such as a horse or a camel? Avraham goes to the Akedah on a donkey; Yosef’s brothers travel on donkeys; Moshe places his wife and sons on a donkey; and, of course, Moshiach is destined to be revealed as “poor and riding on a</p><p>donkey.”</p>
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