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(Yes, that's the title of the whole collection.) It's a wild ride through the aggadah – the stories, the embellishments, the "filling in the blanks" that surrounds the more straigh...
Her story, as told in Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, is filled with love, loss, and a touch of the mystical. When her son Joseph was born, she named him Yosef, which means ...
According to Legends of the Jews, he was just waiting for Joseph to be born so he could finally head home. Why? Because Jacob had a sense – a ruach hakodesh, a holy spirit – that J...
According to Legends of the Jews (Ginzberg, naturally drawing on earlier Midrashic sources), things were still pretty tense. See, Jacob, ever the strategist, tried to make a deal w...
We know from the Torah that Jacob took precautions, dividing his family and possessions. But Ginzberg, in Legends of the Jews, paints a more vivid picture of Jacob’s strategic, alm...
The story of Jacob and his reunion with his brother Esau offers a powerful glimpse into just that kind of devotion. We all know the story: Jacob, after years of estrangement, is pr...
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...
We're talking about the dream where he saw a ladder stretching to heaven, angels ascending and descending (Genesis 28:12). According to Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, Jacob...
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...
