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You know the story: Abraham, victorious in battle, refuses to take any spoils. Not a single thread. Not even a shoe-latchet. A tiny thing. But according to the Legends of the Jews,...
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...
The Torah touches on this in the Brit Bein Habetarim (ברית בין הבתרים), the Covenant Between the Pieces, in Genesis 15. But the story doesn't end there. The Legends of the Jews fil...
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...
Now, to ensure he gets some rest, God does something… unusual. He makes the day intensely hot. How hot? The Zohar tells us that God bored a hole into Gehinnom – that's hell – so it...
They were promised a child in their old age – a miracle, really. But when faced with the seemingly impossible, did they truly believe? The Torah tells us that when God says Sarah w...
In the Legends of the Jews, Ginzberg retells this powerful moment where Abraham challenges God's justice. Can you imagine that? Arguing with the Almighty! God, having already destr...
And imagine the joke being about your future descendants! That’s precisely what happened at a feast hosted by none other than Abraham himself, as recounted in Ginzberg’s Legends of...
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 ...
