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It’s a wild one, and it involves a homunculus, a miniature, artificially created human. The story goes that Maimonides had a brilliant young assistant, a student he poured his hear...
According to tradition, when the time came for Abraham to leave this world, God didn't send just any messenger. He summoned the Angel of Death himself. But God, in His infinite com...
There's a story, a rather incredible one, about a rabbi who supposedly did just that. It all revolves around Rabbi Judah Loew, also known as the Maharal of Prague. This was a truly...
Serah, daughter of Asher, one of Jacob's sons. We find her name nestled in the list of those who went down to Egypt with Jacob to escape the famine. You can find it in Genesis 46:1...
For forty long years, as they wandered, they had a constant companion: a pillar of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night. The Torah tells us, in Exodus 13:21, "And Yahweh wen...
Not just on Earth, but in this state of… well, existence. Fraught with hard work, pain, and ultimately, mortality? The story of the exile from Eden, found in Genesis 3:1-24, tries ...
The creation story, as we know it, tells of God fashioning the world, setting it firmly on its foundations (Tree of Souls, Ifa 7838). Then came Adam, the first human. God brought h...
But Jewish tradition sometimes paints a more complex picture, one where the serpent is more of a… well, a puppet. to a fascinating version of the story, retold in Tree of Souls and...
It wasn't just bad manners, folks. The story, as the rabbis tell it, is far more… complicated. You see, Adam was made in God's image. And so was his son Seth, and Seth's son, Enosh...
