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The text tells us that Jacob was grievously ill, and it’s no wonder. Think about all he’d been through! Remember his years of relentless toil while working for Laban? Day and night...
It's the twenty-first day of the second month, in the second year of a devastating seven-year famine. Jacob, weary but resolute, makes his way down to Egypt. Famine had gripped the...
That's the weight Jacob carried, a weight he shares with his sons in a passage from Legends of the Jews (Ginzberg). Jacob, nearing the end of his life, recounts a powerful vision t...
The story of Jacob wrestling with an angel, found in Genesis 32, is one of the most enigmatic and powerful scenes in the Torah. But what was really going on that night by the river...
Our ancestor Jacob had that experience, big time, at the ford of the Jabbok (יַבֹּק), a river mentioned in Genesis. The story, as told in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer (chapter 37), a fas...
Jewish mysticism, particularly Kabbalah, grapples with this kind of complexity all the time. Let's talk about Leah and Rachel, two of the matriarchs, wives of Jacob, and how Kabbal...
It all starts simply enough: "Reuben went during the days of wheat harvest, found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to Leah, his mother. Rachel said to Leah: Please give me ...
The ancient rabbis certainly did. Let's delve into a fascinating passage from Bereshit Rabbah, a classical collection of rabbinic interpretations of the Book of Genesis, specifical...
Jewish tradition certainly thinks so. And there’s a powerful story that illustrates just how deeply connected we are across generations, a story about the pleading of the fathers a...
