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Take the blessing Jacob gave to his youngest son, Benjamin. It seems straightforward, but the Rabbis saw in it a glimpse into the future of the entire Israelite nation. Jacob, on h...
It’s a story of family betrayal, simmering rage, and, ultimately, a hard-won path to self-control. The drama unfolds like this: the brothers are out tending the flocks. Joseph, the...
Let’s turn our attention to the sons of Jacob, and consider their final moments, as described in Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews. We'll start with Levi. We read that he finished giv...
Joseph, the one they sold into slavery years before, is now a powerful figure. He could have sought revenge. He had every reason to. But, as our text from Legends of the Jews point...
The frogs were gone. Vanished! You'd think he'd be thanking his lucky stars. You'd think he’d be packing up the Israelites and sending them on their way with a "Godspeed!" But nope...
They're opposites. Always battling it out. But in one of the most dramatic stories in the Torah, the Exodus from Egypt, we see them working together in a truly terrifying way. I'm ...
This month, Nisan, will be the month of your freedom!" But instead of jubilation, he's met with doubt. "How can this be?" they ask, according to Legends of the Jews. "Egypt is over...
But according to tradition, getting the coffin out of Egypt in the first place was a whole adventure in itself. See, according to Legends of the Jews, retold by Louis Ginzberg, Egy...
You've got the Red Sea in front of you, Pharaoh's army closing in behind, and the unforgiving desert on either side. Talk about a rock and a hard place. Desperate doesn’t even begi...
