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It wasn't just the unbearable pain of losing a child. Jacob's situation was, as these stories often are, layered with complexities, with promises and spiritual anxieties. See, Jaco...
The scene is set: Tamar is about to be executed. Accused of infidelity, she desperately searches for the evidence that could prove her innocence – three pledges she had received fr...
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...
It's easy to get lost in the big stories, the sweeping narratives, but sometimes the most fascinating details are tucked away in the smaller, more intimate moments. Take Zebulon, f...
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...
You know, the one with the coat of many colors? We're past the coat now, past the jealous brothers, and right into his new life in Egypt. He's working in the house of Potiphar, an ...
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...
