Parshat Behar

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The sabbatical year, the jubilee year, laws of land ownership, and the prohibition against usury. Leviticus 25:1-26:2.

Joseph and the Promised Land of Egypt

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 45:17

There's a whole world of fascinating texts out there, bubbling with stories and details that expand on the familiar narratives. Today, let's peek into one of them: the Book of Jubi...

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Jacob's Transgression

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 45:21

The Torah is full of these moments, these transitions, these reminders of our own mortality. And the Book of Jubilees, that fascinating text that expands upon Genesis, Exodus, and ...

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Joseph's Vision of Satan

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 46:7

This wasn't just a fleeting moment of goodwill; the Book of Jubilees specifies that this harmony lasted for "ten weeks of years" – seventy years in total – all the days of Joseph's...

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Jacob in Joseph's Time and Egyptians

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 46:11

We're diving into the Book of Jubilees, specifically chapter 46. Now, the Book of Jubilees isn't part of the standard Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, that you'd find in most synagogues. ...

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Joseph's Transgression and Egypt

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 46:15

That’s kind of what happened after Joseph's incredible rise to power in Egypt. Remember Joseph? Sold into slavery by his brothers, then, through a series of unbelievable events, ri...

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Joseph the Dreamer and Pharaoh

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 46:24

It comes from the Book of Jubilees, specifically chapter 46. The Book of Jubilees, for those who aren't familiar, is an ancient Jewish text that retells the stories of Genesis and ...

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Joseph the Ruler and Egypt

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 47:1

Like you're swimming upstream in a river of… well, you get the picture. That struggle, that feeling of being unfairly opposed, is an incredibly ancient one. And it echoes through t...

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The Burning Bush and Egyptian

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 47:14

We know he was found in the reeds, destined for greatness. But what happened between that moment and the burning bush? Well, the Book of Jubilees, a fascinating ancient text not in...

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Face of Moses

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 48:9

We all know the story of the plagues visited upon Egypt. Blood, frogs, locusts… a greatest hits album of divine retribution. But what about the behind-the-scenes details? What abou...

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