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And it turns out, even Biblical heroes felt it too. Take Joseph, for example. You know, the guy with the coat of many colors? His story, as told in the Torah, is already But the Le...
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 Torah tells us the broad strokes, but some of the details… well, they’re just fascinating. Let's pick up the thread as the story continues its winding path toward Egypt. The br...
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...
Take, for example, the story of Joseph and his brothers. We know about the coat, the jealousy, the slavery in Egypt… but what about their lives outside of that central drama? Inter...
We know the big picture from the Torah: Potiphar, imprisonment, interpreting dreams, and ultimately becoming second-in-command to Pharaoh. But what about those missing pieces? What...
But let's rewind to the very beginning of his Egyptian adventure. The Torah tells us Joseph's brothers sold him to a caravan heading to Egypt. But what happened when he actually go...
The details, as they say, are in the legends. Potiphar, understandably enraged by his wife's claims about Joseph, didn't just shrug it off. He had Joseph stripped and beaten, accor...
