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What does it even mean? The verse appears in the context of the brit bein ha-betarim, the “covenant between the pieces.” God makes a covenant with Abraham, promising him descendant...
Our ancestor Abraham felt it too. The Torah tells us, in Genesis 15:12: "About the time of the setting of the sun a trance fell upon Abraham; and lo, a great horror of darkness cam...
The Torah, in its unflinching honesty, doesn't shy away from these tough questions. to one particularly weighty example. In Genesis 15:13, God tells Abraham – Avraham, the patriarc...
But let's dive into one fascinating perspective found in the Midrash of Philo, and see what it reveals about the soul's journey. Philo, a Jewish philosopher living in Alexandria ar...
Let’s pull up a chair and delve into one of those moments – a complicated one, to be sure, involving Sarah, Abraham, and Hagar. The question before us is this: Why did Sarah, barre...
They're not just labels, you know. In Jewish tradition, a name can be a destiny, a reflection of character, a clue to understanding the deeper story. Take Sarah, for example. Why i...
We find him in Genesis 17:3, and the Torah tells us, "Abraham fell on his face." But... why? What was going on in that moment that caused Abraham, the patriarch, the man of faith, ...
Philo, the great Jewish philosopher of Alexandria, grappled with this very question. And his answer, preserved in "The Midrash of Philo," is surprisingly insightful. He suggests th...
The verse in Genesis 17:10 states, "And every male of you shall be circumcised, and you shall circumcise, or you shall be circumcised, in the flesh of your foreskin." Seems straigh...
