This weekend marks the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first Star Wars film in cinemas since 2019. To prepare, I decided to rewatch the Disney show, The Mandalorian. I made a jaw-dropping discovery: the titular group of people, the Mandalorians, are Space Jews! I doubt this was intentional on George Lucas’s part, but it feels as though it was from the showrunners of The Mandalorian Season 3.

For instance, the title of its seventh episode, “The Spies,” is a reference to the Twelve Spies of Israel. In the Torah, Moses and Aaron sent twelve spies, one from each Tribe of Israel, to scout out the land of Canaan, while, in the episode, a handful of Mandalorians returned to the ruins of Mandalore to see if it was indeed habitable. As I’d come to discover, this was only the first of many parallels.

Despite Boba Fett, the first Mandalorian seen in Star Wars, being introduced on film in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980, the lore behind the Mandalorians didn’t get elaborated on until season two of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. They were a pacifist society after a brutal civil war forced all the Mandalorian warriors to be exiled to the moon of Concordia. However, a terrorist group known as Death Watch threatened the peace, and after teaming up with the former Sith Lord Maul, they overthrew the pacifist Mandalorian government. Bo-Katan Kryze, the sister of the Duchess of Mandalore, was the second-in-command of the Death Watch, but worked with the Republic to reclaim Mandalore after Maul took over.

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