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.

Moses's Offering and Abram

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 12:12

Jubilees, for those unfamiliar, is an ancient Jewish text that retells the stories from Genesis and Exodus, but with some… shall we say, interesting additions. It's considered pseu...

Abram in the Holy Land

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 13:1

That’s the feeling I get when I read the story of Abram leaving Haran in the Book of Jubilees. Jubilees, if you’re not familiar, is an ancient Jewish text that retells the stories ...

Holy Land

Abraham's Journey

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 13:9

It paints a vivid picture of Abraham’s arrival and his immediate actions. Imagine this: Abraham, having journeyed from Ur of the Chaldees – a long and arduous trek, no doubt – fina...

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Secrets Within Torah and Abram

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 13:31

The Book of Jubilees, considered by some to be pseudepigraphal – meaning it's attributed to a biblical figure but not actually written by them – offers a unique perspective on bibl...

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Abraham Among the Fathers and Sukkot

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 16:40

We often think of the Torah as the ultimate source, and of course, it is foundational. But there are other ancient texts, bubbling with stories and traditions, that shed even more ...

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Isaac: Kingdom of Abraham

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 17:1

We're talking about Abraham, and his son, Isaac. Specifically, when Isaac was weaned. Now, weaning might not seem like cause for a huge shindig today, but in ancient times, it was ...

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Angels Attend to Ishmael

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 17:18

Hagar knew that feeling intimately. We find her story, or at least a piece of it, echoed in the Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewish text that retells and expands upon stories from ...

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The Binding of Isaac

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 18:4

That’s the heart of one of the most powerful, and frankly, disturbing stories in the Hebrew Bible: the Akeidah, the Binding of Isaac. We all know the basic story from Genesis 22. G...

Patriarchs

Trial of Abraham

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 19:4

We often think of trials as grand, sweeping events, but sometimes the most profound tests come in the quiet moments of grief. Think about Abraham. We know him as a patriarch, a fig...

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