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(Yes, that's the title of the whole collection.) It's a wild ride through the aggadah – the stories, the embellishments, the "filling in the blanks" that surrounds the more straigh...
Abraham, Avraham Avinu, our father Abraham, grappled with just such a question. He believed in God’s promise that his descendants would flourish, but he yearned to understand how t...
That’s what the biblical Rebekah experienced during her pregnancy with Jacob and Esau. She suffered terrible pains, unlike anything she'd ever felt before. She asked other women if...
That, my friends, is Esau in a nutshell. We all know the story. Esau, the elder twin, sells his birthright to his younger brother Jacob for a bowl of lentil stew. But what was real...
Some say it was Isaac! Or, as he's sometimes called, Elihu the son of Barachel. Imagine: it was through his debates with Job that the hidden wonders of nature were revealed. Quite ...
But let's back up a moment. Picture this: a lone rider dismounts by a river, perhaps seeking respite from the desert heat. He leaves his horse and clothes on the bank, maybe thinki...
This one's from the Book of Genesis 34:25-29, amplified and expanded in the Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, and it's... intense. It all begins with Dinah, Jacob's daughter, ...
The story of Simon and Levi's vengeance upon the city of Shechem, after the rape of their sister Dinah, is one such tale. We’ve talked before about how their actions were, shall we...
The story of Rachel's burial offers a powerful glimpse into this very idea. The Torah tells us simply that Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin and was buried on the road to Ephrat...
