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Our ancestor Jacob certainly did. The Torah tells us that Jacob wrestled with an angel – a divine being – all night long (Genesis 32:25-30). But what really happened that night? Wh...
See, Joseph, sent by his father Jacob, arrives in Shechem. Now, Shechem wasn't just any town. According to the legends, it was a place already steeped in bad vibes. Ginzberg, in hi...
We often think of the eldest as holding a special place, but Jewish tradition sometimes flips that script in fascinating ways. Let's look at the tale of Ephraim and Manasseh, the s...
Ginzberg, in Legends of the Jews, presents a fascinating, almost unsettling, answer. You see, when the time for redemption drew near, fulfilling the promise to Abraham, there was a...
Because, according to some traditions, even the ten plagues weren't enough to soften the hearts of the Egyptians. The oppression of the Hebrews continued relentlessly, right up to ...
Jewish tradition grapples with these questions constantly, and sometimes the answers come from the most unexpected places. Take this story, for example, about the angel Michael, th...
It turns out, some pretty incredible stories lie behind even the most familiar phrases. Let's talk about the Shmoneh Esrei (שמֹנֶה עֶשְׂרֵי), the Eighteen Benedictions, also known ...
The verse tells us, "God's wrath was enflamed because he was going, and the angel of the Lord stood on the way as an impediment to him, and he was riding on his donkey, and his two...
The Torah gives us a fascinating glimpse of such a moment in the story of Bilam, the non-Jewish prophet hired to curse the Israelites. In Numbers, chapter 22, verse 31, we read: “T...
