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He was laying siege to the Amalekite capital. For half a year, twelve thousand of Israel's finest soldiers had been camped outside the city walls, and… nothing. Can you feel the fr...
Talk about a family drama! The weight of that betrayal, the sheer despair of it all, nearly broke him. The Legends of the Jews, as retold by Ginzberg, tells us that David, in his d...
King David knew that feeling all too well. Imagine this: David, the shepherd boy who famously felled Goliath, now a king, is out hunting. But this isn't just any hunt. The Satan, t...
That’s exactly the situation King David found himself in, according to the Legends of the Jews. He wasn’t choosing between dinner options, though. This was a divine reckoning. You ...
I've got one for you, straight from the heart of Jerusalem and the mystical lore surrounding King David's tomb. Imagine a poor Jewish washerwoman, a woman known for her piety. She'...
The old stories certainly think so. Take this little snippet from Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews, a treasure trove of rabbinic tales and folklore. It paints a picture of animal loy...
That's what happened when the Queen of Sheba, herself renowned for her intelligence, decided to test Solomon. First up: distinguishing between men and women who looked exactly alik...
We often hear about the human labor, the cedar from Lebanon, the gold and precious stones. But there's a less-told tale, a whisper from the shadows, involving beings not quite of t...
Not just the wise king of Israel, but a man who, according to some accounts, lost his way in a rather spectacular fashion. You know, the Bible hints at Solomon's downfall. 1 Kings ...
