Parshat Vayeshev

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Joseph's dreams and his brothers' jealousy, Joseph sold into slavery, Judah and Tamar, and Joseph in Potiphar's house and prison. Genesis 37:1-40:23.

Pain of Displacement and There

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 10:9

We get a glimpse, a chilling snapshot, in the Book of Jubilees. This ancient Jewish text, considered canonical by some but not included in the standard Hebrew Bible, offers a uniqu...

Exile

Noah Remembered and Ararat

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 10:24

We all know the story of Noah, the ark, and the animals. But what about the aftermath? What kind of world did Noah and his family rebuild? The Book of Jubilees, a fascinating text ...

Noah & Flood

The Tower of Babel

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 10:36

That disconnect, that inability to understand each other, it goes way back. Like, really way back. We're talking about the Tower of Babel. You know, that ambitious, some might say ...

Noah & Flood

Serug's Repentance

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 11:14

Sometimes, the story behind a name is a window into a whole era, a whole shift in how people saw the world. Take Serug, for example. The Book of Jubilees, a text considered canonic...

Repentance

Terah and the Heavenly Realms

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 11:17

Think of it as a kind of expanded, annotated Genesis, written sometime in the Second Temple period. It offers us a glimpse into how some ancient Jews understood their own history. ...

HeavenElijah

Terah Among the Mothers

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 11:22

We often think of them as just labels, but sometimes, they carry a whole story within them, a whisper of the past echoing into the present. Take the name Terah, for instance. It so...

MatriarchsElijah

Abraham's Prayer and Avram

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 11:26

That’s kind of the vibe we get when we look at the early life of Abraham, or Avram as he was known then. to the Book of Jubilees, a fascinating ancient Jewish text that expands on ...

Prayer

Moses's Offering and Abram

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 12:12

Jubilees, for those unfamiliar, is an ancient Jewish text that retells the stories from Genesis and Exodus, but with some… shall we say, interesting additions. It's considered pseu...

Moses

Terah and the Promised Land

Apocrypha Book of Jubilees 12:16

The Book of Jubilees, a fascinating text considered canonical by some but excluded from the Hebrew Bible, gives us a glimpse. It paints a vivid picture of Terah, Abraham’s father, ...

Holy Land