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And the reason why might surprise you. According to some traditions, it was actually thanks to the merits of his grandson, Jacob, that Abraham himself was rescued from the fiery fu...
Today, let's talk about Esau. We know him as Jacob's brother, the one who traded his birthright for a bowl of stew. But there's so much more bubbling beneath the surface. According...
The answer, according to Jewish legend, lies with Nimrod and some very special garments. The stories tell us that Nimrod, a mighty hunter and king, possessed clothes imbued with an...
Take Isaac, for example. His life, as the great compilation Legends of the Jews tells us, reads like a mirror image of his father Abraham's. Abraham had to leave his homeland. So d...
But the roots go way back, further than you might think, to the patriarch Isaac himself. According to Ginzberg's retelling in Legends of the Jews, after Isaac's interactions with K...
The Torah hints at it in so many ways. Let's look at the story of Isaac and some very important wells. Isaac, as we know, was the son of Abraham, and he found himself in Gerar, a P...
Our story takes us back to Isaac, the son of Abraham, and a rather awkward encounter with Abimelech, king of the Philistines. Abimelech, you see, was feeling a little… guilty? Anxi...
Jacob, completely innocent, declares, "With whomever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live!" (Genesis 31:32). Ouch. As we learn in Legends of the Jews, this wasn't just a figure...
It’s a story often overlooked, nestled within the larger narrative of Jacob’s sons. After the, shall we say, unfortunate incident in Shechem – you know, the one involving Dinah and...
