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to a juicy little episode from the Book of Jubilees, chapter 27, and see what kind of familial kerfuffles our ancestor Jacob found himself in. Remember Jacob and Esau? Those twins,...
Let's take a little trip to the mountain of Gilead. We know it as the place where Jacob and Laban made their famous oath. We read in Genesis that they swore to each other they woul...
The story of Isaac and Esau, as told in the Book of Jubilees, definitely gives you that vibe. We pick up the story with Isaac, son of Abraham, having just returned from Beersheba, ...
It’s a question as old as… well, as old as families themselves. And in the Book of Jubilees, we find a powerful little exchange between Jacob and his mother, Rebekah, that sheds li...
We've all been there. But what if those fleeting moments of negativity had cosmic consequences? That’s a question that echoes powerfully from the Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewis...
It’s a universal human experience, and it echoes through our sacred stories. Take the tale of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, for example. We know the story well from Genesis, but the ...
That feeling, that tension, is right at the heart of the story we find in the Book of Jubilees as Jacob, now also known as Israel, prepares to leave the familiar for the unknown. T...
We all know the story of the Maccabees, the brave Jewish warriors who fought against the oppressive decrees of the Seleucid king Antiochus. But what happened after they won? Well, ...
That’s what I find so compelling about this passage from 1 Maccabees 9. It's not about a glorious victory, but the cold, hard reality of occupation. We’re talking about the afterma...
