Parshat Bereshit

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Covers the creation of the world in six days, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the first sin, Cain and Abel, and the generations from Adam to Noah. Genesis 1:1-6:8.

Joshua As Oedipus

Tree of Souls

Now, we all know Joshua as a great leader, a warrior, a successor to Moses. But what if his origins were shrouded in a myth mirroring some of the most famous stories in history? Ac...

CreationDemonsHeavenMessiah

The Center Of The World

Tree of Souls

We're told, in no uncertain terms, that the Land of Israel is the heart of it all. But it doesn't stop there. Jerusalem, we learn, is the heart of the Land of Israel. And within Je...

CreationHeavenTorahPatriarchs

The Building Of The Temple

Tree of Souls

That’s the kind of story we find woven into the legends surrounding the building of the Temple in Jerusalem. And it's a vision that even found its way into the writing of Franz Kaf...

CreationAdam & EveNoah & FloodTemple

God's Judgment Above And Below

Tree of Souls

Jewish tradition often speaks of a profound connection between the heavens and the earth – “as above, so below,” as the Kabbalists say. But what happens when tragedy strikes here? ...

CreationAngelsHeavenMessiah

Strange Fire

Tree of Souls

There's a story in the Torah, a rather unsettling one, about two brothers, Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, and it's been echoing through Jewish tradition for millennia. We find...

CreationDemonsHeavenMoses

The Rainbow Of The Messiah

Tree of Souls

Maybe that’s because the rainbow we see today isn’t the rainbow of the Messiah. Not yet, anyway. : the rainbow we know is a promise, a beautiful one, certainly. It's a reminder of ...

CreationHeavenMessiahTorah

The Sixth Day

Ginzberg Vol. 1

According to Ginzberg's retelling in Legends of the Jews, just as fish were formed from water and birds from boggy earth, mammals were formed from solid earth. And among these, we ...

CreationAngelsHeavenHell/Gehenna

The Birth Of Noah

Ginzberg Vol. 1

I’m talking about Noah, the hero of the Ark, the one chosen to rebuild humanity after the Great Flood. But before the ark, before the flood, there was a birth story so extraordinar...

CreationAngelsHeavenHell/Gehenna

Noah Leaves The Ark

Ginzberg Vol. 1

Sounds… intense. That’s what Noah faced. But what happened after the floodwaters receded? You might think it was all sunshine and rainbows, but the story, as the Legends of the Jew...

CreationHell/GehennaTorahAdam & Eve