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Jewish tradition certainly has! to a world of giant birds, floating axes, and feasts fit for the righteous. Imagine this: a group of travelers sailing on a vessel spot a bird stand...
We all know about Leviathan, the mighty sea serpent, Ziz, the colossal bird, and Behemot, the giant land beast, but they aren’t alone in the bestiary of Jewish legend. There are ot...
We read about Adam in the Bible, of course, but the Jewish tradition paints an even more vivid picture. It's a picture of almost superhuman perfection, a being so magnificent he pr...
Legends of the Jews tells us that the south fell to the lot of Ham. Think scorching deserts, sweltering jungles... that kind of heat. The north? That became the inheritance of Japh...
We know the story of Isaac, the son born in Abraham's old age, the one through whom the Jewish people would descend. But what about Ishmael, Abraham's firstborn? Was he forgotten? ...
Turns out, according to tradition, the good times kept rolling. The Legends of the Jews, that incredible compilation of rabbinic stories gathered by Louis Ginzberg, tells us that G...
Talk about stressful family dynamics! According to Legends of the Jews, as retold by Louis Ginzberg, Jacob's wives, seeing his distress, started to bicker and blame him for uprooti...
Can you imagine being the last to know? The very last? And about something so monumental, so life-altering? That was Jacob. Everyone else in his close family knew that Joseph was a...
We know the story ends with a seemingly happy resolution, a family reunited and thriving in a new land. But, like all good stories, there's often more to the tale than what initial...
