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The prophet Daniel had such a dream. It's recorded in the Book of Daniel, and it's a vision that’s puzzled and inspired readers for centuries. "As I looked on," Daniel recounts, "t...
The land was barren. A terrible famine gripped the region, forcing Abraham and Sarah to seek refuge in Egypt. They first tried Hebron, but the hunger was everywhere. So, they journ...
The story of Abraham and Isaac, the Akeidah (the binding), grapples with these very questions. Abraham and Sarah, living in the Land of Israel, yearned for a child. Their lives wer...
Sometimes, the most incredible stories come from those moments. Like this one from Hebron, about how the patriarch Abraham himself stepped in to aid his descendants. Now, Hebron – ...
According to Legends of the Jews, as retold by Ginzberg, it was the one hundred and thirtieth year after the Israelites arrived in Egypt. Pharaoh, uneasy in his power, had a distur...
It's like that feeling when you’re about to embark on a big project, a dream, something truly significant. Imagine wanting to build the most magnificent house imaginable. That's th...
It’s a question that’s plagued philosophers and dreamers for millennia. And, of course, it's a question that's deeply embedded in Jewish thought. What if I told you there was a con...
Jewish mysticism, particularly the Kabbalah, is full of these! It's like trying to grasp smoke, or maybe…decipher a dream. One of the trickiest areas involves understanding the str...
You're not alone. But what is that "realness" we experience in dreams? In a dream, one moment you're flying, the next you're talking to your long-lost great aunt Mildred in a field...