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The Torah touches on this in the Brit Bein Habetarim (ברית בין הבתרים), the Covenant Between the Pieces, in Genesis 15. But the story doesn't end there. The Legends of the Jews fil...
Abraham knew that feeling well. Before he was Avraham Avinu, our father Abraham, before the brit bein ha-betarim—the covenant of the pieces—he was just a man with a promise and a p...
Sometimes, the stories behind them are even more incredible than the rituals themselves. Let's talk about brit milah, circumcision, and a story that links it to the holiest day of ...
That’s the situation Abraham found himself in, according to rabbinic tradition. The story goes that God, observing the rampant wickedness in Sodom, Gomorrah, and the surrounding ci...
According to Jewish tradition, the inhabitants of Sodom and the other cities of the plain suffered the ultimate loss: not only their lives in this world, but also their portion in ...
They were old when they finally had Isaac. We're talking ancient! So, naturally, people had questions. Naysayers abounded. The big question on everyone's lips was, "Can a hundred-y...
And imagine the joke being about your future descendants! That’s precisely what happened at a feast hosted by none other than Abraham himself, as recounted in Ginzberg’s Legends of...
The story of Hagar and her son Ishmael, wandering in the desert, touches on that very human struggle. According to Legends of the Jews, Sarah, in a moment of jealousy, cast an "evi...
But Ishmael’s story doesn't simply vanish; it continues, filled with hardship, growth, and a surprising encounter with his father. According to Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews, Ishm...
