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The prophet Jeremiah certainly did, and the story of his choice after the destruction of the First Temple is a powerful one. Imagine the scene: Jerusalem has fallen. The Temple is ...
It’s a universal feeling, and it echoes through the ages, even finding its voice in the ancient stories of our people. Imagine the scene: The Jewish people are in exile, far from t...
We're traveling alongside the exiled Jews, trudging through the dust after the destruction of the First Temple. Nebuchadnezzar, that infamous king, is marching them to Babylon, and...
Here, we learn about the not-so-neighborly behavior of the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites, and Arabs toward the Israelites. While the Bariites—known for their compassion—didn't have...
I'm not talking about missing a concert – I mean sleeping for decades and waking up to a world completely transformed. The Talmud (Ta'anit 69b) tells us of several people who exper...
Let’s talk about Jeremiah. We all know the prophet. The one who warned Judah of its impending doom, the “weeping prophet” who saw the Babylonian exile coming. But what happened aft...
The Babylonians sacked the city, but did they get everything? Well, some say that not all the sacred objects fell into enemy hands. The prophet Jeremiah, according to tradition, ma...
One figure who lived through this unimaginable time was Baruch, the loyal scribe and companion of the prophet Jeremiah. The Talmud tells us that Baruch ben Neriah was not just a sc...
Take, for example, the story of Barozak. Not far from the tomb of the prophet Ezekiel, legend tells us, lay the less-known grave of Barozak. Now, Barozak wasn't a prophet himself, ...
