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We all know the story of Jacob, later named Israel, and his brother Esau. Their relationship? Let’s call it “fraught.” But according to the Legends of the Jews, peace didn't last. ...
The Torah, in the story of Joseph, doesn’t shy away from those very human emotions. In fact, it puts them front and center. The brothers of Joseph, you see, were seething. And it a...
That’s the situation Reuben, the eldest son of Jacob, found himself in with his younger brother, Joseph. Reuben had good reason to worry. As the eldest, he knew that if anything ha...
The weight of grief, the injustice of his situation… it’s almost unbearable. The text tells us that Joseph wept so intensely that he became “immovable as a stone” (Legends of the J...
to a fascinating little story from Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, a monumental work compiling centuries of Jewish folklore and tradition. We’re talking about Joseph, of coa...
The coat of many colors, the jealousy, the betrayal... But what about those first few hours after that fateful act? According to Legends of the Jews, that amazing compilation of ra...
Judah, one of Jacob's sons, married a Canaanite woman, and their firstborn was named Er, which poignantly means "the childless." As fate would have it, Er’s name was a prophecy. He...
After the whole heartbreaking ordeal of selling Joseph into slavery to the Midianites, Judah's brothers came to him with a proposition. "If things were normal," they said, "our fat...
Sometimes, their stories are tucked away in unexpected places, waiting to be discovered. Take Asher, for instance, one of Jacob's sons. We know he founded one of the twelve tribes,...
