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The ancient texts tell us that after the dust settled from the battles described earlier in Legends of the Jews, Abraham was deeply troubled. He couldn't shake the thought of the i...
Abraham knew that feeling well. Before he was Avraham Avinu, our father Abraham, before the brit bein ha-betarim—the covenant of the pieces—he was just a man with a promise and a p...
It's one of the most powerful, and most disturbing, narratives in the Torah. And it all starts with a test. "And the Lord thought to try Abraham and Isaac in this matter. And He sa...
That’s kind of what happened to Abraham. God promised him the entire land of Canaan, a massive inheritance for him and his descendants. But when his beloved wife Sarah passed away,...
It's easy to imagine them simply receiving divine gifts, but the reality, as often told in our tradition, is far more nuanced. Take Abraham, for instance, and his quest to acquire ...
This one involves Joseph, yes, that Joseph, the one with the coat of many colors, the dreamer who rose to power in Egypt. But before the famine, before the brothers came begging fo...
He bids them farewell at the frontier, extending an invitation for their entire families to join him. It's a moment filled with the promise of reunion and prosperity. But then, he ...
That feeling runs deep in our stories, especially when we look at the patriarch Jacob. Jacob, wrestling with his own past and the legacy of his forefathers, finds himself in a mome...
The Egyptians, according to Legends of the Jews, actually mourned Jacob. Why? Because they believed his presence had lessened the severity of the famine. Instead of lasting the div...
