Parshat Lech Lecha

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God calls Abraham to leave his homeland for Canaan. Covers Abraham and Sarah in Egypt, the separation from Lot, the war of the kings, and the covenant between the pieces. Genesis 12:1-17:27.

Joseph: Jacob and the Patriarchs

Ginzberg Legends of the Jews 1:48

That’s the kind of grief we’re talking about today, the kind that echoes through generations. We're going to look at Jacob's mourning for Joseph, a scene painted with raw emotion i...

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Death of Jacob of Joseph

Ginzberg Legends of the Jews 1:52

That’s the kind of agony Jacob, also known as Israel, was experiencing after hearing of the supposed death of his beloved son, Joseph. The news, as you can imagine, hit him like a ...

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Jacob and the Patriarchs

Ginzberg Legends of the Jews 1:54

Take, for instance, the story of Jacob mourning the loss of his beloved son, Joseph. We all know the story. Joseph's brothers, driven by jealousy, sell him into slavery and then pr...

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Joseph: Death of Jacob

Ginzberg Legends of the Jews 1:55

Jewish tradition understands this deeply, acknowledging that while time can heal the wound of death, the absence of someone vanished, someone still living, leaves a different kind ...

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Kingdom of Tamar

Ginzberg Legends of the Jews 1:65

We pick up the story after some tragic events, chronicled in Genesis 38. Tamar, already twice widowed to Judah's sons, finds herself in a difficult position. According to the laws ...

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Trial of Judah and Joseph

Ginzberg Legends of the Jews 1:73

After the whole heartbreaking ordeal of selling Joseph into slavery to the Midianites, Judah's brothers came to him with a proposition. "If things were normal," they said, "our fat...

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Trial of Joseph and Zuleika

Ginzberg Legends of the Jews 1:114

He faced a test that could have changed his life forever. The story goes that when Potiphar's wife, Zuleika, tried to seduce him, he refused. "I fear my master," he said, according...

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Joseph and the Patriarchs of Eben

Ginzberg Legends of the Jews 1:127

But there's a twist. In Legends of the Jews, we hear how she noticed a sudden change in Joseph's face. "My friend and true-love, why art thou so affrighted that thou art near to sw...

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Joseph's Legacy and Jacob

Ginzberg Legends of the Jews 1:338

That’s where we find Joseph in this story. The scene: Joseph, after years of separation and hardship, is finally reunited with his father, Jacob. It’s a moment of profound joy, a c...

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