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The Torah tells us God instructed Abraham: "Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of t...
We often hear about the immediate aftermath – the vengeance of Simeon and Levi. But what about Jacob and his family? Did they just pack up and leave? Well, according to the Legends...
Plagues, parting of the Red Sea, freedom! But the details…they’re wild. Imagine the scene: the Egyptians, fresh from the devastation of the tenth plague, practically shoving the Is...
A story of how even apparent chaos can ultimately lead to unity. , shall we? The Ramchal, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, in his work Asarah Perakim (Ten Chapters), delves into the int...
Jewish tradition has a name for that feeling, and it’s a powerful one: "yeast and leaven." But hold on, it’s not about baking gone wrong. In the Tikkunei Zohar, a central text of K...
You know the story: Abraham, victorious in battle, refuses to take any spoils. Not a single thread. Not even a shoe-latchet. A tiny thing. But according to the Legends of the Jews,...
The Torah tells us of Jacob's famous dream, but the Legends of the Jews fills in fascinating details. It wasn't just any ladder, you see. It was a ladder connecting earth and heave...
The Torah often gives us glimpses, but sometimes it's the extra-biblical stories, the legends whispered through generations, that fill in the details. Let's look at one such tale f...
It's often because the story isn't just about one family or one kingdom, but about the tangled web of relationships between them all. Take, for instance, the story of Esau and Jaco...
